{"id":36,"date":"2007-06-19T16:47:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-06-19T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T00:52:59","slug":"would-you-could-you-on-a-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Would you, could you, on a bus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a shuttle bus from Portland to Corvallis, OR.  No, really, I&#8217;m on a bus <i>right now<\/i>.   When I got on the bus, I noticed a plaque that reads: &#8220;Free wireless internet is available on the bus.&#8221;  On the bus?  And <i>free<\/i>, no less?  I know wireless access is being provided these days on planes, at least for those long international flights.  But bus-access is a new one on me.  (And the airlines definitely don&#8217;t offer access for free.)<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist doing a speed test on this link (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\">speedtest.net<\/a>, which was the first hit on google and has an awfully slick interface).  The result was 785 kbps down, 83 kbps up &#8212; not too shabby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a shuttle bus from Portland to Corvallis, OR. No, really, I&#8217;m on a bus right now. When I got on the bus, I noticed a plaque that reads: &#8220;Free wireless internet is available on the bus.&#8221; On the bus? And free, no less? I know wireless access is being provided these days on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}