{"id":611,"date":"2009-12-08T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:40:12","slug":"merry-christmas-cable-rates-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/12\/08\/merry-christmas-cable-rates-rise-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas: Cable Rates Rise Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cablevision, our local cable television and Internet service provider monopoly, gave us a nice gift this Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-612\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-612\" title=\"cable_rates\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cable_rates.jpg\" alt=\"New Rates Effective December\" width=\"425\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cable_rates.jpg 425w, https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cable_rates-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Rates Effective December<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Verizon gets around to bringing FIOS to my neighborhood I will switch in a heartbeat. With Verizon&#8217;s aggressive deployment, why isn&#8217;t it available <em>here<\/em> when it&#8217;s available as soon as you step out of the neighborhood? That&#8217;s a long story. But I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cablevision, our local cable television and Internet service provider monopoly, gave us a nice gift this Christmas. When Verizon gets around to bringing FIOS to my neighborhood I will switch in a heartbeat. With Verizon&#8217;s aggressive deployment, why isn&#8217;t it available here when it&#8217;s available as soon as you step out of the neighborhood? That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/12\/08\/merry-christmas-cable-rates-rise-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas: Cable Rates Rise Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}