{"id":44,"date":"2011-04-04T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-04-22T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:05:31","slug":"hands-off-the-chacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Hands off the chacha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Since the extra calories I&#8217;ve burned by not having a remote (you can read about\u00a0the case of the missing remote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spriggy.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/he-gone-and-done-it.html\">here<\/a>) haven&#8217;t taken any inches off my waistline, I decided to invest in an all in one remote control.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not an expensive one or the one I hoped a manly man would buy me to redeem himself, but I&#8217;m hoping that by buying a cheap channel changer, nobody and especially movie watching dates will never be tempted to steal it again.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also so relieved that I never have to get up to change the volume only to return the five feet and find out I still can&#8217;t hear it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s like 20 feet round trip and then to regain energy another 40 to the refrigerator to regain energy for sitting on the couch again.\u00a0No wonder I\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0slimmed down any.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IzLowTixICo\/TZnrNeMWH1I\/AAAAAAAABQs\/k9WRxQhIc6U\/s1600\/hands+off.jpg\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-IzLowTixICo%2FTZnrNeMWH1I%2FAAAAAAAABQs%2Fk9WRxQhIc6U%2Fs1600%2Fhands%2Boff.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-blogger-escaped-r6=\"true\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IzLowTixICo\/TZnrNeMWH1I\/AAAAAAAABQs\/k9WRxQhIc6U\/s1600\/hands+off.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But this is what I have to say to all my future dates and visitors who might be eyeing my possessions.\u00a0 Hands off the ChaCha! (the\u00a0alter ego of a remote\u00a0which is short for Channel Changer)\u00a0I have to lay these ground rules from the beginning or I might just end of violated again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Here is the link to \u00a0the original post explaining it all. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=9\">He gone and done it.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the extra calories I&#8217;ve burned by not having a remote (you can read about\u00a0the case of the missing remote\u00a0here) haven&#8217;t taken any inches off my waistline, I decided to invest in an all in one remote control.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not an expensive one or the one I hoped a manly man would buy me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}