{"id":458,"date":"2009-08-16T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:50:50","slug":"day-186-80s-tv-or-the-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Day 186: 80s tv, or the lack thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I wonder what I did as a child.&#160; I mean, except for memorize multiplication tables.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly didn\u2019t indulge in television watching \u2013 I was too busy doing homework!&#160; And chatting up babes on the Internet.&#160; Kate rattled off a long string of 80s television shows, of which I had watched probably less than 10% of.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember watching any episodes of classics like Who\u2019s the Boss, Family Ties, or Charles in Charge.&#160; I remember seeing tidbits of long-running series like Cheers or MASH.&#160; Really, the only shows in my childhood I can lay claim to are those from the TGIF block: Step by Step, Family Matters, and Boy Meets World.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, it seems that I missed out on a lot of television nostalgia that others in my generation have.&#160; Katie also remembers a show about a little girl that was a robot called Small Wonder.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of it, but I think that my position is the majority here.&#160; Has <em>anyone<\/em> heard of Small Wonder?&#160; Wikipedia says that it was considered by TV Guide and the BBC to be one of the worst sitcoms <em>ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking sample SAT tests may have actually been more fun than watching that.&#160; And believe me \u2013 I took a lot of those as a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I wonder what I did as a child.&#160; I mean, except for memorize multiplication tables. I certainly didn\u2019t indulge in television watching \u2013 I was too busy doing homework!&#160; And chatting up babes on the Internet.&#160; Kate rattled off a long string of 80s television shows, of which I had watched probably less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[200,71,57],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-childhood","tag-math","tag-tv","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}