{"id":7413,"date":"2015-11-28T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2015-11-28T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T18:53:54","slug":"fiber-gets-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"Fiber gets closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"932\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-1.jpg\" alt=\"fiber-1\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-1-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Generally, if I see heavy equipment anywhere within miles of the abbey, it&#8217;s a reason for panic. It means that someone is cutting trees to sell logs, or someone is up to some kind of mischief with a bull dozer. But there is one kind of machinery that is a joy to see nearby. That&#8217;s the kind of machinery that buries fiber optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>This equipment was parked during the weekend about two miles from the abbey. It&#8217;s not clear whether the route of the new fiber will be on the paved road nearest the abbey. The abbey, by the way, is on an unpaved road half a mile from pavement.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days, though I have no idea when, the abbey will have fast Internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"930\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-2.jpg\" alt=\"fiber-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-2-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-3.jpg\" alt=\"fiber-3\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"741\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-4.jpg\" alt=\"fiber-4\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fiber-4-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, if I see heavy equipment anywhere within miles of the abbey, it&#8217;s a reason for panic. It means that someone is cutting trees to sell logs, or someone is up to some kind of mischief with a bull dozer. But there is one kind of machinery that is a joy to see nearby. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fiber gets closer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-issues","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7420,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}