{"id":650,"date":"2011-08-11T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2011-08-11T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:23:05","slug":"no-more-xm-radio-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"No More XM Radio For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know that for the last 10 years I&#8217;ve enjoyed a 2 hour commute to work on Monday and back home on Friday. The MINI makes it almost bearable but the saving grace has been my XM Radio which I&#8217;ve had much longer than that. But since the merger with Sirius the channel choice and quality has declined rapidly but at least it still had BBC Radio 1 and that&#8217;s pretty much all I listen to.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. Whether the Beeb wanted too much, or Sirius just didn&#8217;t want to pay for it any more, BBC Radio 1 has been yanked from the service and some emails from their Sr Programming Director show they pretty much don&#8217;t care so I have cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is what to listen to? There are parts of my journey where all I can pick up are Mexican channels so I can&#8217;t rely on over the air. Also, much of the trip I only have &#8220;1x&#8221; service on my phone so not sure I can even use a streaming app on the Droid. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll listen to some CDs and finally learn Spanish??? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know that for the last 10 years I&#8217;ve enjoyed a 2 hour commute to work on Monday and back home on Friday. The MINI makes it almost bearable but the saving grace has been my XM Radio which I&#8217;ve had much longer than that. But since the merger with Sirius the channel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No More XM Radio For Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}