{"id":1809,"date":"2005-09-29T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2005-09-29T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T00:00:44","slug":"grand_rapids_te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids Tests Downtown WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wifinetnews.com\/archives\/005887.html\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grpress\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-25\/112791892543210.xml&#038;coll=6\">The seven vendors who built test hotzones for Grand Rapids, Mich., all showed<\/a> they had the right stuff: The local paper reports that the city was very satisfied with the results of their vendor face-off. The next goal is figuring out how to set up a no-taxpayer-dollar network, as is the charter of all new municipal efforts. They\u2019re looking at a public\/private partnership with a plan ready to bid by December. The town is eyeing local and federal legislation that might restrict their ability to deploy.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: The seven vendors who built test hotzones for Grand Rapids, Mich., all showed they had the right stuff: The local paper reports that the city was very satisfied with the results of their vendor face-off. The next goal is figuring out how to set up a no-taxpayer-dollar network, as is the charter of [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}