{"id":123,"date":"2001-12-19T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-19T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2001-12-19T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-19T17:40:00","slug":"123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, quite unexpectedly, my cable modem started working again. Just like that. No more blinking lights, no more refused connections, no more error messages to prompt a wasted hour on the phone with AT&T. After seventeen days without an internet connection (minus what I have at work and the dial-up that arrived sometime Friday afternoon), I can wash my hands of them. My account is now owned by Adelphia. AT&T never told me this of course, would not even admit they were negotiating a deal, but the local paper reported it yesterday, and someone told me about it at lunch. And when I got home, my modem was working. AT&T’s phone number no longer worked, and Adelphia’s phone number welcomed their new custormers in State College, Pennsylvania. I should receive a check from AT&T in about eight weeks paying me two days credit for each day of interrupted service.<\/font><\/p>\n

And, as an added bonus, my plush Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth<\/a> arrived at my door yesterday. It’s a wonderfully silly thing. I am quite pleased.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, quite unexpectedly, my cable modem started working again. Just like that. No more blinking lights, no more refused connections, no more error messages to prompt a wasted hour on the phone with AT&T. After seventeen days without an internet connection (minus what I have at work and the dial-up that arrived sometime Friday … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}