{"id":393,"date":"2010-01-19T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:54:08","slug":"chooseday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/01\/chooseday\/","title":{"rendered":"Chooseday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In another episode of “Bizarre Entries in the Foxtel EPG”, I stumbled across this one this evening:<\/p>\n

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“Chooseday Night Football”? Now, take careful note that it is currently “TUESDAY”. I thought it might have been some kind of clever piece of nomenclature based around the day of the week, that might have been promoting some kind of “choose which game of football you want to watch tonight” interactive programming – but no – this was\/is the only game available.<\/p>\n

Surely they aren’t entering EPG information through speech recognition? Surely someone wasn’t stupid enough to type in “Chooseday” instead of “Tuesday”?<\/p>\n

Surely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In another episode of “Bizarre Entries in the Foxtel EPG”, I stumbled across this one this evening: “Chooseday Night Football”? Now, take careful note that it is currently “TUESDAY”. I thought it might have been some kind of clever piece of nomenclature based around the day of the week, that might have been promoting some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}