{"id":115,"date":"2005-05-31T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=115"},"modified":"2005-05-31T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T01:04:39","slug":"sirius-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/05\/31\/sirius-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirius Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/sirius.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/sirius_thumb.jpg\" align=left vspace=5 hspace=12 alt=\"image\"\/><\/a> I&#8217;m now an official satellite radio subscriber.  This is one of those things I wasn&#8217;t sure I wanted to buy and now I don&#8217;t know how I lived without it.  I went with Sirius over XM radio because one is for adults and the other is for kids with Honda Civics and go-cart mufflers.  XM radio sports selection consists of Major League Baseball.  The only thing more boring than watching baseball on TV would be listening to it on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Sirius on the other hand has NHL, NFL, NBA and many ESPN channels.  During my research I found that the music and news selections are better too.  I guess &#8220;XM&#8221; just sounds cooler than &#8220;Sirius&#8221; so parents this is what your teenager will want (and why XM has more subscribers).  Despite this Sirius is in better financial shape than XM.  This could be because of a more mature user base that can actually pay the bill.  Personally I like the fact that there is better news and jazz on Sirius.  I guess that makes me an ol&#8217; geezer but that&#8217;s what life deals.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now an official satellite radio subscriber. This is one of those things I wasn&#8217;t sure I wanted to buy and now I don&#8217;t know how I lived without it. I went with Sirius over XM radio because one is for adults and the other is for kids with Honda Civics and go-cart mufflers. XM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2005\/05\/31\/sirius-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sirius Radio<\/span> <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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}