{"id":2786,"date":"2007-11-15T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2007-11-15T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T02:17:00","slug":"2786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/12\/business\/media\/12borders.html?_r=1&#038;ex=1352610000&#038;en=174e217d1e4cb051&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\" title=\"Borders Adds TV Watching to Its Bookstores\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Entertainment\">This is a shame<\/a>, because I actually sort of like my local Border&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new strategy at Borders will reinforce the message that its stores are not just about books: the company has been installing 37-inch flat-screen televisions to show original programming, advertisements, news and weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the screens are &#8220;not designed to be intrusive,&#8221; but it&#8217;s difficult to see how they could be anything but and still be effective.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/\">Ed Champion<\/a>, who, not surprisingly, is more upset about it than me.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shame, because I actually sort of like my local Border&#8217;s: A new strategy at Borders will reinforce the message that its stores are not just about books: the company has been installing 37-inch flat-screen televisions to show original programming, advertisements, news and weather. Apparently the screens are &#8220;not designed to be intrusive,&#8221; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2786\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}