{"id":2024,"date":"2011-11-05T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2011-11-05T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T13:41:00","slug":"the-volume-makes-the-tv-turn-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"The volume makes the TV turn off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, trying to type quietly so as not to wake the sleepers in the house, when Number One Son (never in the sleeping camp) came into my office this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOS:\u00a0<\/strong> Someone\u00a0must be\u00a0controlling the Roku remotely, because I was watching a video and it just went back to the menu!<br \/>\n<strong>BUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 Big Man, we&#8217;re the only ones awake in the house, and I don&#8217;t think the cats are changing your channel.\u00a0 It probably just caught a weird signal from the video and stopped or something.<br \/>\n<strong>NOS:\u00a0<\/strong> I think someone did it.<br \/>\n<strong>BUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 They&#8217;re all asleep, and I have the iPad right here.\u00a0 I think even the cats are asleep.\u00a0 Come on, let&#8217;s go downstairs and look.<\/p>\n<p>We went downstairs, and he stuck his head in the doorway of the Reigning Queen of Pink.\u00a0 He looked at me and said, &#8220;Well, she&#8217;s awake!&#8221;\u00a0 Yeah, I said, but she&#8217;s lying in bed quietly.\u00a0 I got him back settled in front of his show.\u00a0 As I came upstairs I noticed the Human Tape Recorder, recently 13, had her door cracked open.\u00a0 I glanced in and\u00a0saw that she was also lying in bed quietly&#8230;\u00a0 Playing with her iPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, you can&#8217;t control the downstairs TV with that thing, can you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I can <strong>hear<\/strong> it from here, it&#8217;s a problem,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, snap.<\/p>\n<p>I told her to knock it off, and\u00a0went back downstairs and told Number One Son that I thought the signal fault might be related to the volume, and to keep it down so it didn&#8217;t happen again.\u00a0 Peace and order, restored.\u00a0 Or possibly rebooted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace and order, restored.  Or possibly rebooted.<\/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":[61,47,3,5,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}