{"id":4008,"date":"2021-07-31T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:25:11","slug":"tales-from-the-town-16-broadcast-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/07\/31\/tales-from-the-town-16-broadcast-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #16: Broadcast Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/broadcastmedia-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/broadcastmedia-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/broadcastmedia-small.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/broadcastmedia-small-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had it all set up. They were going to make a video and upload it to youtube.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel pressed record.<\/p>\n<p>There were thirty seconds of silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d Tina whispered from off camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of anything to say,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood,\u201d said Claire. This hadn\u2019t been her idea at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shut up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will!\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were thirty seconds of silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you say something, Claire?\u201d Tina suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to say <em>anything<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good,\u201d said Ethel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shut up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already have!\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were thirty seconds of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel pressed stop.<\/p>\n<p>They did not upload it to youtube.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written between the 4th and the 6th of May, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had it all set up. They were going to make a video and upload it to youtube. Daniel pressed record. There were thirty seconds of silence. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d Tina whispered from off camera. \u201cI can\u2019t think of anything to say,\u201d said Ethel. \u201cGood,\u201d said Claire. This hadn\u2019t been her idea at all. \u201cShut up!\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1192,1234,1209],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-a-cast-of-characters","tag-broadcast-media","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}