{"id":2806,"date":"2007-02-20T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2007-02-20T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T11:16:14","slug":"fear_and_loathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing the Cable Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/cablevision-sucks\/\">Jeff Jarvis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But then, that&rsquo;s not news. I&rsquo;ve been trying to get Joost working at home and was cursing it, but I was cursing the wrong party. Joost works fine at work. I can&rsquo;t wait until Verizon finishes laying fibre on my street so I can get FIOS. Except Verizon hired the worst contractor imaginable to get the job done. They have been at it for more than two months on a street with fewer than 20 homes; they&rsquo;ve managed to cut our cable and gas line and a neighbor&rsquo;s electric line and they&rsquo;re not nearly done. I&rsquo;m about to go out with a shovel myself just so I can get rid of Cablevision sooner.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least Jarvis can look forward to fiber to the home, via Verizon.  Locally, AT&#038;T is content to spend money on advertising and resell us the copper lines we&#8217;ve paid for over and over and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jarvis: But then, that&rsquo;s not news. I&rsquo;ve been trying to get Joost working at home and was cursing it, but I was cursing the wrong party. Joost works fine at work. I can&rsquo;t wait until Verizon finishes laying fibre on my street so I can get FIOS. Except Verizon hired the worst contractor imaginable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,14,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}