{"id":136,"date":"2015-12-06T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=136"},"modified":"2016-07-09T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:24:41","slug":"december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lobby\"<\/a>We did manage to get outside a bit (see below), but our biggest achievements this year may have been in the field of televiewing. \u00a0We gave up our cable subscription, but with a faster internet connection we are able to watch a lot of regular programming, including getting the BBC World News hours before it is broadcast locally. \u00a0And, living within sight of several antennas, we receive the major networks the old-fashioned way, over the air.<\/p>\n

\"TV2\"<\/a>What we have done mostly though is watch videos. We do this on the cheap also, since Alex has learned how to get a steady stream of them from the public library, and soon after they are released. Being retired, and no longer expected to engage in water-cooler conversation about recent offerings, we have been happily viewing years-old movies and series that we missed completely while we were living in Mexico and even before. \u00a0One of our first projects was to binge-watch the entire run of 30 Rock, for instance.<\/p>\n

This strategy has allowed us to watch over 500 theatrical releases in a year. \u00a0They weren’t all new — there was the occasional flim noir or neglected classic — but thanks to careful attention to the critics we only “walked out” on a couple of them. This year’s list isn’t available yet, but the names of movies I’ve seen for the prior\u00a0thirty years or so are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>
\nI guess we’re not entirely couch potatoes: we are again visiting our climbing gym, Vertical World<\/a>. And a fair amount of kayaking<\/a> occurred also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We did manage to get outside a bit (see below), but our biggest achievements this year may have been in the field of televiewing. \u00a0We gave up our cable subscription, but with a faster internet connection we are able to watch a lot of regular programming, including getting the BBC World News hours before it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}