{"id":793,"date":"2011-12-31T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2011-12-31T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:56:23","slug":"zeitgeist-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Zeitgeist (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting perspective from a forum post that I read somewhere t&#8217;other day: someone (presumably someone growing up since the ubiquity of mobile phones) who saw <em>landlines<\/em> as a premium service (because the company had to &#8220;put all the wires in&#8221; to the house) and mobile service as the basic service (because you just issue someone with a handset and then you are done with it), and didn&#8217;t understand why the mobile service was the more expensive one. I wonder how much this is true: is mobile only a premium-price service because historically it was, or is it still more expensive to maintain and run the mobile infrastructure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting perspective from a forum post that I read somewhere t&#8217;other day: someone (presumably someone growing up since the ubiquity of mobile phones) who saw landlines as a premium service (because the company had to &#8220;put all the wires in&#8221; to the house) and mobile service as the basic service (because you just issue someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[14,42,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}