{"id":4152,"date":"2024-03-21T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","slug":"not-missing-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"NOT MISSING MUCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I accidentally watched a few minutes of NBC News on my phone tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t have a TV set at home and sometimes I forget that people still watch television &#8211; or that it&#8217;s even still a thing! (We do have Netflix and Prime and we can stream both through a video projector in our living room, but I watch no more than one or two hours a week typically.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, the news clips I watched struck me as so ridiculous. There was stuff about President Biden and Hunter and claims of corruption. If I followed the story correctly, it seems the Republicans are charging the Democrats with corruption and the Democrats are saying it is the Republicans who are corrupt. This was followed by a big update on Princess Kate&#8217;s health.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All speculation. No actual facts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No actual news.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t feel like I am missing anything by no longer keeping up on politics as closely as I once did. In fact, I am glad I have stopped paying attention to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much better for my mental health.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally watched a few minutes of NBC News on my phone tonight. We don&#8217;t have a TV set at home and sometimes I forget that people still watch television &#8211; or that it&#8217;s even still a thing! (We do have Netflix and Prime and we can stream both through a video projector in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}