{"id":1555,"date":"2014-03-21T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2014-03-21T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:00:13","slug":"rick-ledgett-on-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Rick Ledgett on TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"626\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zLNXIXingyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll first note that I&#8217;ve literally NEVER had so much trouble getting through a TED talk due to technical difficulties, NEVER. It crashed my entire roku device 4 times, each which required a hard restart. Just saying&#8230;. And in between those events was a constant rebuffering and lack of signal.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence&#8230;..? Sure, why not.<\/p>\n<p>Having taken due note of that, I now feel like I need a shower after the ocean of self-righteous and indignant bullshit I just had vomited on me out of my TV, that guy is a true scumbag.<\/p>\n<p>To say that I find his statements WILDLY at variance with obvious facts, as well as self-serving and contemptuously patronizing in the extreme, is to say that I would have an issue with being thrown out of a plane without a parachute, it&#8217;s not even worth talking any more about.<\/p>\n<p>These people call themselves Americans, unreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ll first note that I&#8217;ve literally NEVER had so much trouble getting through a TED talk due to technical difficulties, NEVER. It crashed my entire roku device 4 times, each which required a hard restart. Just saying&#8230;. And in between those events was a constant rebuffering and lack of signal. Coincidence&#8230;..? Sure, why not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[506,454,142,351,508,23,364,507,116,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}