{"id":2206,"date":"2010-10-11T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2010-10-11T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:07:52","slug":"hope_on_the_internet_front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/10\/hope_on_the_internet_front\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope On The Internet Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t sludge (see yesterday&#8217;s entry), but it did get worse. The problem was intermittent and untraceable even with cable company equipment so sophisticated it might be on loan from the CIA. Now, however, after a pair of two-hour visits  from techs, long, baffling phone calls with two other techs and, finally, the purchase and installation of a new piece of equipment, the <em>Rifftides<\/em> World Headquarters web connection seems alive and stable. That&#8217;s what I thought 24 hours ago. After a glass of something red and a good<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Prayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prayer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/Prayer-thumb-100x74-17679.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a> night&#8217;s sleep, I&#8217;ll try to post a catchup piece on The Seasons Fall Festival. Hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t sludge (see yesterday&#8217;s entry), but it did get worse. The problem was intermittent and untraceable even with cable company equipment so sophisticated it might be on loan from the CIA. Now, however, after a pair of two-hour visits from techs, long, baffling phone calls with two other techs and, finally, the purchase and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}