{"id":48856,"date":"2014-12-10T21:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T04:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/broadbanding-cities.html"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:06:43","slug":"broadbanding-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/broadbanding-cities.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadbanding Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll note that my own home of Centennial is part of the Next Century Cities consortium (<a href=\"http:\/\/nextcenturycities.org\/member-cities\/#post-227\">http:\/\/nextcenturycities.org\/member-cities\/#post-227<\/a>). Woo-hoo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/12\/09\/cities-team-up-to-figure-out-broadband'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UF72hKnRhFafxnRmYYNmGLz3ULluo4gciLaoKrBxeQMGFDol5ZMajeecqPMBBnkHBOuEaVtxM_PJtRd8Iv5PTeb86vGgCdHLSdkGb_H2cutzCH-Um3dczQpj1X04p-FbFs2OPg14tqnfP9-K1iohmfWAUMrzqNbniYiz6Hav_hzqfaYzFu_AFmnszF-zYw1Zrpglf4rxNYRf1r-SHxj3e9mcTsDVSuU=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/12\/09\/cities-team-up-to-figure-out-broadband'>Fifty U.S. cities bond together to home-grow broadband<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSeveral dozen mayors have organized themselves under the banner of Next Century Cities in a bid to put cities and other local governments at the center of the debate over what&#8217;s to become of high-speed Internet in the United States.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gooVNp2qicR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll note that my own home of Centennial is part of the Next Century Cities consortium (http:\/\/nextcenturycities.org\/member-cities\/#post-227). Woo-hoo! Fifty U.S. cities bond together to home-grow broadband Several dozen mayors have organized themselves under the banner of Next Century Cities in a bid to put cities and other local governments at the center of the debate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/broadbanding-cities.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broadbanding Cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-48856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","tag-post-227"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130847,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/the-biggest-empire-of-the-12th-century.html","url_meta":{"origin":48856,"position":0},"title":"The biggest empire of the 12th Century","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Jun-16 11:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Europe was still bumbling about its Dark Ages, the Angkor \/ Khmer people were building something amazing. 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