{"id":38795884,"date":"2005-04-22T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/04\/tivo-wishlist-r.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:57:10","slug":"200504tivo-wishlist-r-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/200504tivo-wishlist-r-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Tivo Wishlist Roulette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Klau has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rklau.com\/tins\/archives\/2005\/04\/21\/the_onion_tivo_wishlist_roulette.php\">shared a fun idea<\/a> he found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onionavclub.com\/feature\/index.php?issue=4116&amp;f=2\">The Onion<\/a>, Tivo Wishlist Roulette.  Pick a word and enter it as a Tivo WishList set to auto-record any matching programs.  Then sit back and enjoy the anticipation while waiting to see what your Tivo will find.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a purely random experience, I didn&#8217;t want to pick my own word, so I turned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/cgi\/display\/wotd\">Oxford English Dictionary: Word of the Day<\/a> page to find mine.  Today&#8217;s word: <b>slant<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the results!  (I can hear you now, &#8220;Get a life Chris!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Oh the irony!  In looking for something random, I got what I already had.  The only program that the keyword &#8216;slant&#8217; added to my Tivo&#8217;s &#8216;To-Do&#8217; list was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/\">The Daily Show with John Stewart<\/a>, a program I already Tivo and watch religiously.  The reason?  The show&#8217;s description says it provides a &#8216;humorous slant&#8217; on daily news.  There you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Klau has shared a fun idea he found in The Onion, Tivo Wishlist Roulette. Pick a word and enter it as a Tivo WishList set to auto-record any matching programs. Then sit back and enjoy the anticipation while waiting to see what your Tivo will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMA4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354564,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795884\/revisions\/173354564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}