{"id":422,"date":"2005-07-19T08:17:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=422"},"modified":"2005-07-21T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T22:43:20","slug":"that-was-then-this-is-comcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"That was Then.  This is Comcast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/16\/AR2005071601229.html?sub=AR\">excellent story from the Washington Post<\/a> detailing the trials and tribulations of Comcast high speed internet customers.  Comcast&#8217;s response is to blame the issue on the phone company.  Way to go.<\/p>\n<p>The experiences echo the ones I&#8217;ve been having in my own dealings with Comcast High Speed internet.  Now you see why I had to go back to Verizon, despite some of their own horrid screwups as of late.  Those screwups just happen to be not as bad as the cable company&#8217;s, and thus I&#8217;m forced to pick the lesser of two evils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Comcast&#8217;s slogan a hallmark for horrid service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}