{"id":1747,"date":"2014-10-08T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T01:33:07","slug":"saturday-morning-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/saturday-morning-cartoons\/1747\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning cartoons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day I never thought I&#8217;d see:  Saturday, October 4, 2014, there were no Saturday morning cartoons.  <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually watched Saturday cartoons in decades. I won&#8217;t miss them or anything. And I think it&#8217;d be great if thousands of kids weren&#8217;t parked parked in front of the TV so they could absorb early-propoganda lessons about Stuff They Need To Buy. But I&#8217;m not that naive. There is still &#8220;children&#8217;s programming&#8221; and there are lots of commercials for those. <\/p>\n<p>And handing your kid the iPad or tablet and letting them play on that for hours isn&#8217;t a big improvement over cartoons. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another name for &#8220;keeping the kids entertained&#8221;. And yeah there&#8217;s educational stuff available on the net. Oh yeah, kids are turning that on, right. <\/p>\n<p>Kind of makes me miss the cartoons, actually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day I never thought I&#8217;d see: Saturday, October 4, 2014, there were no Saturday morning cartoons. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually watched Saturday cartoons in decades. I won&#8217;t miss them or anything. And I think it&#8217;d be great if thousands of kids weren&#8217;t parked parked in front of the TV so they could absorb early-propoganda [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}