{"id":1389,"date":"2012-10-18T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2012-10-18T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:04:57","slug":"zenith-sm3287bt-june-3-1995-to-october-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/10\/18\/zenith-sm3287bt-june-3-1995-to-october-18-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenith SM3287BT: June 3, 1995 to October 18, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 1995, I walked out of Rosa and Sullivan $875 poorer and one Zenith 32\" television heavier. I moved it from my apartment on Burkhard to my house now, and it's been around for everything from MST3K nights to screenings of Battleship Potemkin. I bought it a digital TV tuner in 2009 so it could still display off-air TV, although I haven't watched in a while. It's been at least a couple years since the red gun would come on when I turned it on &mdash; these days I have to let it warm up and cycle the power before I can watch movies in anything but dingy cyan.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight, 17 years, 4 months, and 15 days later, I turned it on for the last time. Zenith Model SM3287BT, Serial Number 581-35141883, you will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to watch Paris, Texas so I turned on the power strip and hit the on-off button. The degaussing coil kicked on, and then it made a hideous &mdash; quite loud &mdash; electrical crackling noise. I stepped back in surprise and the crackling continued. I inched forward and shut off the power strip. I gave it a tenuous second try but it would do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I found this to be the funniest thing that has happened all week. Finally: television <em>surprised<\/em> me.<\/p>\n<p>I think my cat thinks I'm crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 1995, I walked out of Rosa and Sullivan $875 poorer and one Zenith 32\" television heavier. I moved it from my apartment on Burkhard to my house now, and it's been around for everything from MST3K nights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/10\/18\/zenith-sm3287bt-june-3-1995-to-october-18-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[2103,1054,2102],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-day-to-day","tag-rosa-and-sullivan","tag-television","tag-zenith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}