{"id":1480,"date":"2010-08-02T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:57:01","slug":"welcome-to-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/08\/welcome-to-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dish-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dish-pic.jpg\" alt=\"satellite dish\" title=\"satellite-dish\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1481\" \/><\/a>I finally did it.  It took years.  Nay, decades. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve moved beyond the dialup internet connection I&#8217;ve had for probably 30 years and made the switch to what we in the sticks consider to be high speed &#8212; connecting through a little dish.<\/p>\n<p>The installer was here today.  For almost 4 hours.  I&#8217;m hooked up.  It&#8217;s definitely faster than my dialup already.  But it&#8217;s not done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow my firewood guy has to come and cut down a double-trunk soft maple tree that&#8217;s interfering with the satellite&#8217;s view of the sky.  When he does this, it will not only make my internet satellite perform better, it will also improve the reception of my TV dish.  <\/p>\n<p>Plus, I&#8217;m not wireless at the moment.  My ancient airport couldn&#8217;t seem to comprehend the new system, so I have an ethernet cable connected directly to my computer for now.  That means I&#8217;m tied to this one spot.  My wonderful friend came and retrieved the old airport and assures me that he&#8217;ll either get it working or get me a new one.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, at the very least, now I can be online and talk on the phone at the same time.  Is this a good thing?  Is it worth an extra $35\/month?  I think not.  I am sure, however, that the situation will improve.  (Think positive, think positive, think positive.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn: what are you hanging on to from the last century?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally did it. It took years. Nay, decades. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve moved beyond the dialup internet connection I&#8217;ve had for probably 30 years and made the switch to what we in the sticks consider to be high speed &#8212; connecting through a little dish.<\/p>\n<p>The installer was here today. For almost 4 hours. I&#8217;m hooked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}