{"id":969,"date":"2005-01-24T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2005-01-24T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T00:00:24","slug":"lafayette_la_pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette, LA Pro Fiber Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafayetteprofiber.com\/\">Mike Stagg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Whoever builds a fiber to the home network is going to have a monopoly &#8211; whoever builds it. As a practical matter, I am opposed to monopolies. But I would much rather have a monopoly that I can touch and see and feel and affect, which is [Lafayette, Louisiana municipal utility operator] LUS.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/quote-of-note-mike-stagg.html\">David Isenberg<\/a><br \/>\nMadison should be thinking like this as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Stagg: &#8220;Whoever builds a fiber to the home network is going to have a monopoly &#8211; whoever builds it. As a practical matter, I am opposed to monopolies. But I would much rather have a monopoly that I can touch and see and feel and affect, which is [Lafayette, Louisiana municipal utility operator] LUS.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}