{"id":675,"date":"2007-03-03T22:58:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/remote-nation\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T06:58:20","slug":"remote-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/remote-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan&#8217;s pediatrician recommended a warm mist humidifier to help reduce his coughs at night. That got me searching for a cost-effective unit all over the place. At the end, I settled for an Air-O-Swiss Ultrasonic unit. But I was amazed how many manufacturers sold models that come with remote controls.<\/p>\n<p>Out of all the remotes that&#8217;s come standard with what we use on a daily basis, we use maybe just TWO of them all the time. Some people have eight or nine remotes collected in a basket or in a drawer in their homes. And I think that&#8217;s just crazy that it seems like there&#8217;s a remote for everything nowadays:<\/p>\n<p>TV<br \/>\nDVD Player<br \/>\nFan<br \/>\nHumidifier<br \/>\nMP3 Player<br \/>\nComputer (almost all Macs now come with a remote)<br \/>\nAir conditioning unit<br \/>\nStereo system (both in the living room and in the car)<br \/>\nGarage door<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of Adam Sandler&#8217;s movie, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000HT386M%3ftag=poweratom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26dev-t=1WR8NR93GFXCZEE57C02\" target=\"_blank\">Click<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan&#8217;s pediatrician recommended a warm mist humidifier to help reduce his coughs at night. That got me searching for a cost-effective unit all over the place. At the end, I settled for an Air-O-Swiss Ultrasonic unit. But I was amazed how many manufacturers sold models that come with remote controls. Out of all the remotes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/remote-nation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remote Nation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-logo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-aT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}