{"id":164,"date":"2008-01-29T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/2008\/01\/29\/listening-to-a-sign\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T19:56:54","slug":"listening-to-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"listening to a sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/vveather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/target_audio.jpg\" alt=\"listenable sign\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the recommendation of a friend, who questioned the very idea that someone would plug their headphones in to a sign, I did just that. The experience was, as you might guess, pretty stupid. This particular sign was in the 42nd street A\/C\/E Station, where I stood about a foot away from the ad to which I was tethered and listened to a few moments of John Legend. I can&#8217;t even say I remember much of the music though I am pretty sure I hated it, but to be fair the experience wasn&#8217;t helping. When I pushed my unprotected headphone plug into this skanky 42nd Street subway sign the music was already playing, I had arrived mid song. Maybe I should have waited until the song (or songs?!) looped but the draw of standing uncomfortably close to a sign, listening to new music and thinking that this was supposed to sell me a compact disc was less than strong. I unplugged from the high-tech billboard, thinking of the marketing people convincing themselves that this idea was totally awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recommendation of a friend, who questioned the very idea that someone would plug their headphones in to a sign, I did just that. The experience was, as you might guess, pretty stupid. This particular sign was in the 42nd street A\/C\/E Station, where I stood about a foot away from the ad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[39,390,301],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-personal","tag-advertising","tag-music","tag-signing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}