{"id":28327,"date":"2011-09-19T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wired_and_tired_the_long_view_on_the_new_netflix\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:15:23","slug":"wired_and_tired_the_long_view_on_the_new_netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28327","title":{"rendered":"Wired and Tired: The Long View on the New Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When companies I love (as a customer) and admire\/enjoy writing about (as a journalist) do something that seems downright crazy to both sides of my brain, like splitting up a well-known brand and its useful and well-loved website, I tend to wonder if I\u2019m missing something.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s announcement that it would split into a streaming-only business (called Netflix) and a discs-by-mail business (called Qwikster) caught me by surprise. It\u2019s easy to miss a lot of things when you\u2019re surprised, particularly when the surprise drops after midnight on the east coast, and you stay up all night writing and talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>When this happens, it\u2019s best to look for smart people with different opinions from yours, who\u2019ve probably also had more sleep than you have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2011\/09\/wired-tired-new-netflix\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When companies I love (as a customer) and admire\/enjoy writing about (as a journalist) do something that seems downright crazy to both sides of my brain, like splitting up a well-known brand and its useful and well-loved website, I tend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28327\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,582,589,149,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-movies-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}