{"id":174694,"date":"2021-01-30T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/15724309"},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T12:30:40","slug":"15724309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/15724309","title":{"rendered":"Is It Finally Time for You to Cut the Cable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash Several years ago, a co-worker walked into my office grinning. I asked why he was so happy and he told me he had finally dropped cable. I didn&#8217;t know much about streaming, so I asked him if he quit watching TV. He said no; he had Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and a couple of other services I&#8217;d never heard of.&#8220;Wow, sounds complicated,&#8221; I said. He told me it wasn&#8217;t and then went into a very complicated explanation about how he simple it was to watch what he wanted. I asked him how much all that cost and he gave me a number that was a little less than what I was paying Comcast. &#8220;Seems like a lot of work for so little savings, I said, and then something occurred to me.&#8220;You still need the Internet, right?&#8221;&#8220;Yeah, but I&#8217;m just paying them for the Internet only.&#8221;So, after much discussion, I discovered he was paying more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, a co-worker walked into my office grinning. I asked why he was so happy and he told me he had finally dropped cable. I didn&#8217;t know much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}