{"id":1639,"date":"2025-08-04T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:43:45","slug":"a-different-kind-of-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind Of Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many people I do not own and do not want a television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the news that older pensioners are to be exempt from paying for a television licence makes no difference to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast I really think we need to campaign for all pensioners to have a free broadband connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With so much now been done online it would be a very efficient way to deal with everyday tasks, and overcome a lot of the isolation problems many elderly individuals have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people I do not own and do not want a television. So the news that older pensioners are to be exempt from paying for a television licence makes no difference to me. In contrast I really think we need to campaign for all pensioners to have a free broadband connection. With so much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Different Kind Of Screen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}