{"id":1909,"date":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/18\/2002-04-18-eighth-annual-tv-turnoff-week\/"},"modified":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","slug":"2002-04-18-eighth-annual-tv-turnoff-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/18\/2002-04-18-eighth-annual-tv-turnoff-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth Annual TV-Turnoff Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2002\/04\/16\/entertainment1249EDT0465.DTL\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 16, 2002: The eighth annual TV-Turnoff Week will be observed from April 22nd through the 28th. The whole family is invited to make a clean break from the tube, where the average viewing time is 28 hours per week for adults and 21 hours for children. &#8220;TV-watching is the default setting for many people,&#8221; says Frank Vespe, executive director of the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based TV-Turnoff Network. &#8220;TV isn&#8217;t going away and we&#8217;re not saying that it should. But if we can get people to the point where they&#8217;re making a conscious choice to watch when they watch, and to spend more time doing other things, we will have made a difference,&#8221; he says. On the TV-Turnoff Network&#8217;s Web site (www.tvturnoff.org), you&#8217;ll find tips on how to encourage children and fellow adults. There are lots of alternative activities with which you can fill your TV cooling-off period. The web lists 101 suggestions, including baking, learning yoga, tending the garden and reading a book. The site also gives plenty of arguments for re-examining your free time priorities. One reason: the connection between obesity and TV-watching drawn by then Surgeon General David Satcher as he endorsed last year&#8217;s TV-Turnoff Week. The objective is to occupy yourself with something other than TV, Web-surfing and video games.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 16, 2002: The eighth annual TV-Turnoff Week will be observed from April,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}