{"id":12458,"date":"2020-10-30T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2020-10-27T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:40:10","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/so-you-want-to-be-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to be scared?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOctober 18, 2020:<\/strong> On guard in Knoxville.<\/em><\/p>\n

The obvious tactic to strike fear in your heart right now is the easiest: the phrase “269-269”.<\/a><\/p>\n

(I don’t\u00a0need\u00a0to do horror movies.\u00a0I pay attention to current events, I follow Iowa State sports, and as far as I’m concerned the scariest movie of the 21st century is\u00a0Gone Girl<\/em>. )<\/p>\n

However, there is something even scarier out there \u2014 another unraveling thread in the American cultural fabric<\/a>. From NBC:<\/p>\n

Fans of the classic \u201cPeanuts\u201d comic-strip are expressing outrage over the fact that the quintessential animated holiday specials\u00a0based on the series have moved to the Apple TV+ streaming service<\/a>\u00a0instead of airing on network television.<\/em><\/p>\n

The linked story, like pretty much everything written about streaming video, pays minimal lip service to\/completely ignores the fact that millions of American cannot obtain high-quality-livestream-capable Internet access at any price. <\/em>The best many more can get is to huddle around an iPhone eating into a data plan on an Apple TV+ subscription costing $5 a month. There are DVDs available, but it’s getting harder to get a DVD player.<\/p>\n

Whether 10, 25, or 50 years hence, families will not be gathering around any sort of device to watch a classic YouTube unboxing video or whatever. (And certainly not Quibi. What is Quibi, you ask? Exactly<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 18, 2020: On guard in Knoxville. The obvious tactic to strike fear in your heart right now is the easiest: the phrase “269-269”. (I don’t\u00a0need\u00a0to do horror movies.\u00a0I pay attention to current events, I follow Iowa State sports, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}