{"id":209,"date":"2008-04-28T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T19:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/we-survived\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:50:48","slug":"we-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/we-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"We survived…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The television amnesty is over, not that anyone is bothered. We survived quite well without the grey box in the corner, so well in fact it has hardly been switched on even though it is now “allowed” and both myself and James have dragged ourselves away from the computers outside of the predetermined “shut down” hours with out suffereing any major withdrawal symptoms.<\/p>\n

The blonde dude didn’t once complain of boredom, We’re looking into purchasing a different selection of board games for him and we’ve looked online to see what activities are running at out local library. He has even gone as far as to suggest other activities we can partake in AFTER the ban was complete.<\/p>\n

He didn’t even ask for the television when he went for dinner at my parents which is amazing as he is allowed free reign of the remote control when he’s there…..I think I can call that MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The television amnesty is over, not that anyone is bothered. We survived quite well without the grey box in the corner, so well in fact it has hardly been switched on even though it is now “allowed” and both myself and James have dragged ourselves away from the computers outside of the predetermined “shut down” … Continue reading We survived…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,102,1],"tags":[59,61,70,69,58],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-home","category-wbiagw","tag-kid","tag-kids","tag-no-tv-week","tag-television-ban","tag-theblondekid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-3n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/for-one-week-only\/","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":0},"title":"For one week only…","date":"April 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have come to the realisiation that in our house we rely way too much on technology to keep us occupied. 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