{"id":3660,"date":"2011-05-20T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:18:19","slug":"um-isnt-that-what-a-program-planner-is-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Um&#8230;  Isn&#8217;t that what a program planner is for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/\">KUOW<\/a> on my way to work Wednesday morning I was more than a little amused by the following.<\/p>\n<p>Morning Edition stops for a station break.  There&#8217;s a brief spate of local weather, station identification and then the bumper for the next program on the lineup.  In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/program.php?current=WK1\">KUOW&#8217;s Weekday<\/a>.  The bumper went something like this:<br \/>\n&#8220;The population of the Earth is about to hit 7 billion.  By (some year I don&#8217;t remember) the human population of this planet will be 10 billion.  Is this sustainable?&#8221;<br \/>\nFollowed by the famous (infamous?) clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soylent_Green\">Soylent Green<\/a>.  A bloody Charlton Heston stating, then screaming in disgust &#8220;It&#8217;s made out of people.  Soylent green is made out of people.  LISTEN TO ME!  YOU&#8217;VE GOT TO TELL THEM!  <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE\">SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, very dramatic.  Without a doubt, a poignant sound clip to illustrate what is and will be a major concern for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>But what made me giggle for the rest of the day was that, into the silence following that (possibly prophetic) denouncement came: &#8220;Support for KUOW is provided by Cedar Grove Compost.  Cedar Grove.  Taking yard waste and food scraps and producing nutrient rich compost, top soil, and mulch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Followed by the sound of Margaret snorting tea out her nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to KUOW on my way to work Wednesday morning I was more than a little amused by the following. Morning Edition stops for a station break. There&#8217;s a brief spate of local weather, station identification and then the bumper for the next program on the lineup. In this case, KUOW&#8217;s Weekday. The bumper went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}