{"id":27,"date":"2004-06-18T08:07:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2004-06-18T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T19:08:40","slug":"that-225-you-pay-every-month-in-your-phone-bill-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"That $2.25 you pay every month in your phone bill, wasted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big advocate of schools, especially the poorer districts, getting federal money for things like computers and internet hookups.  But it looks like wave of scandals over the &#8220;E-Rate&#8221; program might threaten that.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the scandals aren&#8217;t without reason.  One shining example, unfortunately, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20040617\/ZNYT02\/406170392\/1051\/NEWS01\">the case of my home town<\/a>, where a little network upgrade turned into the Taj Mahal of networks, which apparently now sits dormant.  More examples of waste <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enquirer.com\/editions\/2004\/06\/18\/loc_kyerate.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/!NEWSROOM\/localstoryN0618CROSSPOINTE0.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice to know where your $2.25 a month is going?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge scandals over the e-rate program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}