{"id":8885,"date":"2010-10-01T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sleeping_spouses_rejoice_tv_ads_get_quieter.html"},"modified":"2010-10-01T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T08:15:25","slug":"sleeping-spouses-rejoice-tv-ads-get-quieter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/sleeping-spouses-rejoice-tv-ads-get-quieter.html","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Spouses Rejoice: TV Ads get Quieter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal government intrusion into the lives of its citizens has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/loud-thumb-500x334-8157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/loud-thumb-500x334-8157-thumb-256x171-8158.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for loud.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>gotten pretty bad these past ten years and it seems we lose rights and more privacy each month. I&#8217;ll be on an airplane later today and the whole removing shoes, laptops and belts routine is not something I&#8217;m looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I am happy that politicians have decided to deal with commercials which are much louder than other programming. I think it is absolutely crazy that we are still fumbling for remote controls late at night to lower the volume of a screeching ads. Actually it is interesting that TV sets haven&#8217;t dealt with the problem on their own. Jacqui Cheng has <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/09\/super-loud-tv-commercials-one-step-closer-to-extinction.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal government intrusion into the lives of its citizens has gotten pretty bad these past ten years and it seems we lose rights and more privacy each month. I&#8217;ll be on an airplane later today and the whole removing shoes, laptops and belts routine is not something I&#8217;m looking forward to. Having said that, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,160,163,199,218,118,190],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}