{"id":4151,"date":"2013-07-30T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2013-07-24T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:30:55","slug":"self-realization-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/self-realization-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Self realization: entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you ever catch yourself doing the same thing over and over again and realize that this thing is a weird ass thing you are doing?\u00a0 I mean, out of character?\u00a0 I noticed just such a thing last weekend.\u00a0 Whenever I am left alone with no preplanned entertainment programming I do what most American couch potatoes do and surf the cable guide for something to watch.\u00a0 I found that I cannot pass a program on extreme RVs without stopping.\u00a0 Unlike other shows, even the beloved bath\/kitchen\/yard\/room crashers, Golden Girls and NCIS, there is never anything that encourages me to change the channel away from an extreme RV special.\u00a0 There is even a good chance that I will pick an extreme RV show over another TV favorite.<\/p>\n

I never want an RV.\u00a0 I cannot picture any lifestyle change that might happen to me to change my mind about wanting an RV.\u00a0 I find most RV designs on these shows overly extravagant and wrought with wasted space.\u00a0 Can I pass the shows up?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you ever catch yourself doing the same thing over and over again and realize that this thing is a weird ass thing you are doing?\u00a0 I mean, out of character?\u00a0 I noticed just such a thing last weekend.\u00a0 Whenever I am left alone with no preplanned entertainment programming I do what most American couch… Continue reading Self realization: entertainment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[172,72],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consumption","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5459,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/the-ugliest-spot-in-the-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":0},"title":"The ugliest spot in the house","author":"leems","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every house has them: those rooms that need sprucing, the hole that needs patching.\u00a0 Well, after we finally painted the pokey hallway, my kitchen became the ugliest spot in the house.\u00a0 It's visible from so many places in the house, it's just too hard to ignore. 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