{"id":104,"date":"2008-02-18T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-02-18T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:16:00","slug":"ok-so-i-gave-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/ok-so-i-gave-in.html","title":{"rendered":"OK, So I Gave In."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So an entire two posts back (hey, that&#8217;s over a <i>month<\/i>!) I declared to the world my dislike and distrust for cable companies. Had I been a slight bit less terse, I might have mentioned that I had no desire for any more television channels to soak up time, and no interest in sending money to yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcast.com\">monopoly<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve now waited seven years for DSL to become available to this location. There&#8217;s even a nice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.net\">probably non-monopolistic DSL provider<\/a> in town, but out here in the sticks (three miles south of downtown Nashville) DSL service has yet to appear.<\/p>\n<p>So I gave in. I&#8217;ve now got limited basic cable, and <i>finally<\/i> broadband at home. Ain&#8217;t I a little hypocrite! Wheee! Anyway I&#8217;ll be ditching Earthlink shortly, and then the landline phone, probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So an entire two posts back (hey, that&#8217;s over a month!) I declared to the world my dislike and distrust for cable companies. Had I been a slight bit less terse, I might have mentioned that I had no desire for any more television channels to soak up time, and no interest in sending money [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}