{"id":6935,"date":"2013-04-09T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2013-04-09T22:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:43:20","slug":"googlefiber-coming-to-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"GoogleFiber coming to Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/04\/09\/176687467\/austin-is-latest-testbed-for-googles-high-speed-experiment\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/04\/09\/176687467\/austin-is-latest-testbed-for-googles-high-speed-experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin Texas is not a random choice for the next city to get 1Gb\/sec residential Internet access.  In addition to being the Capital of the Republic of Texas, it is the blue dot in the middle of a red state.<\/p>\n<p>Austin is the location of the influential SXSW festival of Hollywood and Silicon Valley types.  It is the plan B for companies looking to get the hell out of California.<\/p>\n<p>In a somewhat related note, this past week Dial Global shut down most of their SAG\/AFTRA unionized operations in California and moved them to non-union offices in other states.   I wonder what Thom Hartmann and Eddy Schultz have to say about that and who they can blame?   Sequestration!  Global Warming! the ghost of Margaret Thatcher!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/04\/09\/176687467\/austin-is-latest-testbed-for-googles-high-speed-experiment Austin Texas is not a random choice for the next city to get 1Gb\/sec residential Internet access. In addition to being the Capital of the Republic of Texas, it is the blue dot in the middle of a red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}