{"id":13895,"date":"2004-10-19T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/flat-screen-tv-emits-distress-signal\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:39:00","slug":"flat-screen-tv-emits-distress-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/flat-screen-tv-emits-distress-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat-Screen TV Emits Distress Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/10\/18\/odd.television.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal<\/a> [121.5 MHz] picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.&rdquo;  I think one of the first <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/10\/19\/0141220\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Slashdot<\/i><\/a> comments is a good call: &ldquo;It turns out it got stuck on the Lifetime network, so it really was in a state of distress.&rdquo; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109819849511068797?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal [121.5 MHz] picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.&rdquo; I think one of the first Slashdot comments &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/flat-screen-tv-emits-distress-signal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flat-Screen TV Emits Distress Signal&#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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}