{"id":1281,"date":"2009-08-08T00:49:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-08\/1281"},"modified":"2009-08-26T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T18:50:00","slug":"life-with-the-internet-living-in-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-08\/1281","title":{"rendered":"Life without the Internet: Living in the Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1281'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Squirrels nibbling on a wire out in the street left my folks without\nInternet for the last 24 hours... now <span class='nobr'>I know<\/span> what it must have felt like to\nlive in the stone age. <span class='nobr'>At first<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I figured<\/span> that it must be <span class='nobr'>a general<\/span> outage,\nso we didn't call the service provider, Time-Warner Roadrunner, for <span class='nobr'>a long<\/span>\ntime, but when we finally did, they came out fairly quickly and replaced\nthe whole set of wires, and now everything is running nicely.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now that I can connect again, <span class='nobr'>I see that<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> 149 new email messages,\nso I'm Well and Truly back to the Modern Age. Hmmm, <span class='nobr'>I'm not exactly<\/span> sure\nit's for the better, but at least <span class='nobr'>I can<\/span> continue posting..<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squirrels nibbling on a wire out in the street left my folks without Internet for the last 24 hours... now I know what it must have felt like to live in the stone age. At first I figured that it must be a general outage, so we didn't call the service provider, Time-Warner Roadrunner, for a long time, but when we finally did, they came out fairly quickly and replaced the whole set of wires, and now everything is running nicely.<\/p> <p>Now that I can connect again, I see that I have 149 new email messages, so I'm Well and [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}