{"id":831,"date":"2004-12-13T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2004-12-13T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T11:59:10","slug":"madison_wifi_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Madison WiFi Paid or Free Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isen.com\/blog\/\">David Isenberg<\/a> emailed me and PLEADED that the Madison folks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/001193.php\">make this a free WiFi service<\/a> as he rarely pays for it any more (other than hotels).  That is largely my experience.   There&#8217;s often a free hotspot available in the big cities (I parked recently in San Francisco prior to a meeting and fired up my laptop, only to find several free WiFi hotspots).<br \/>\nI think any local WiFi network based on subscriptions will be a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg emailed me and PLEADED that the Madison folks make this a free WiFi service as he rarely pays for it any more (other than hotels). That is largely my experience. There&#8217;s often a free hotspot available in the big cities (I parked recently in San Francisco prior to a meeting and fired up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}