{"id":4533,"date":"2014-02-24T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2014-02-24T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:17:55","slug":"that-metaphor-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-dept-net-neutrality-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/that-metaphor-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-dept-net-neutrality-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"That Metaphor Isn&#8217;t What You Think It Is Dept., Net Neutrality edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2014\/02\/comcast-netflix\/\">Wired:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you want to send a file from San Francisco to New York, the data will pass through a few different networks along the way, just as you would need to use multiple highways in order to drive from San Francisco to New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interstate-guide.com\/i-080.html\">Interstate 80 goes from San Francisco to just outside New York.<\/a> So aside from the last five miles (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netlingo.com\/word\/last-mile-problem.php\">&#8220;last mile&#8221; problem<\/a>?), you do NOT need to use multiple highways to get from SF to NY. Los Angeles would work. Wired has the right idea, but picked a bad example.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I&#8217;m being pedantic. Remember, the Internet is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/01\/15\/net_neutrality_struck_down_in_a_victory_for_the_late_sen_ted_stevens.html\">not a big truck, it&#8217;s a series of tubes.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: If you want to send a file from San Francisco to New York, the data will pass through a few different networks along the way, just as you would need to use multiple highways in order to drive from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/that-metaphor-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-dept-net-neutrality-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}