{"id":383,"date":"2004-03-13T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/03\/383\/"},"modified":"2004-03-13T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T23:16:00","slug":"383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/03\/383\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling deeply grumpy today.  We&#8217;d booked Sky to install Sky+ in a shameless move to enhance Murdoch&#8217;s millions.  The installer came, walked around on the roof with cat-like agility and couldn&#8217;t get near our dish.  It is in a very awkward place &#8211; I have no idea how the guys who put it up got up there &#8211; I guess it is a two man job.  Anyway.  Murdoch loses some money, and we revert to plan A &#8211; keeping the status quo.  Annoyingly we had a crane up to that very chimney two weeks ago to install the chimney lining. Bah humbug.  No live TV pausing for me then.  I had thought that even if you cannot get up to the dish I would get the Sky+ box, but apparently it needs TWO aerial leads in to it.<br \/>\n<br \/>The only way I can think to get near the dish properly is to get a &#8220;proper&#8221; scaffolder to tower up, but that seems overkill.  At least it would protect the tiles.  Either that or I wait until Sky come up witha hard disk recording box that only neads one lead in &#8211; surely you can split a satellite aerial signal in this day and age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling deeply grumpy today. We&#8217;d booked Sky to install Sky+ in a shameless move to enhance Murdoch&#8217;s millions. The installer came, walked around on the roof with cat-like agility and couldn&#8217;t get near our dish. It is in a very awkward place &#8211; I have no idea how the guys who put it up got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/03\/383\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}