{"id":243,"date":"2007-04-30T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-04-30T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T19:59:12","slug":"underwater-interweb-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Interweb Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a random entry on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> which was talking about a new submarine cable between SE Asia and the US and one of the posts there mentioned a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> story\/article on the topic of cabling by Neal Stephenson who&#8217;s written a whole heap of books that I really, really liked.  So I just had to have a look.<\/p>\n<p>The article is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/4.12\/ffglass_pr.html\">here<\/a> (print version, which I find a lot easier to read), and it&#8217;s suberb!  You&#8217;d think that this could\/should be a really dry kind of topic, but the way he tells it all is great.  So much history and politics that I haven&#8217;t really thought of before.  It is quite a long piece, and a little old (not that it dates, I think), but I just had to keep reading. Must have been a fantastic fact finding trip!<\/p>\n<p>If you do read it, let me know what you thought.  Or maybe it&#8217;s just an interesting to a geek type of thing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a random entry on Slashdot which was talking about a new submarine cable between SE Asia and the US and one of the posts there mentioned a Wired story\/article on the topic of cabling by Neal Stephenson who&#8217;s written a whole heap of books that I really, really liked. So I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}