{"id":8,"date":"2004-03-02T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:15:00","slug":"electric-line-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Electric Line Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read in a Wall Street Journal in our breakroom that Cinergy, Cincinnati&#8217;s power utility, is going to start offering internet access comparable or better than cable\/DSL to folks in Cincinnati.  <\/p>\n<p>This is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want cable, so getting a cable modem doesn&#8217;t make sense.  I don&#8217;t need a telephone land line, since Stacey and I have cellphones.  But I have to have one to get internet access in our home.  But if it were available through the electrical outlet&#8230; that&#8217;d be sweet.  Ditch the landline totally.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it may be a fair amount of time away.  They&#8217;ll be targeting rural areas that don&#8217;t have cable\/DSL options first, before moving into the big cities.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just bide my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read in a Wall Street Journal in our breakroom that Cinergy, Cincinnati&#8217;s power utility, is going to start offering internet access comparable or better than cable\/DSL to folks in Cincinnati. This is fantastic. I don&#8217;t want cable, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=8\">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":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-world-at-large","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}