{"id":70,"date":"2005-10-23T02:04:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:40:31","slug":"the-digital-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"the digital switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Senate Looks to Spend $3B on Digital TV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/20\/AR2005102001979.html\">Senate Looks to Spend $3B on Digital TV<\/a><br \/>\nThe digital conversion date keeps getting pushed back.  I think everyone was supposed to start broadcasting DTV next year.  Now, analog signals will be switched off at the end of 2008\/early 2009.  Of course, everyone will need a digital TV (or conversion box) to get the signals.  And Congress doesn&#8217;t want anyone to be unable to watch TV.  So they want to help people afford the converters.  To the tune of $3B.  Your tax dollars at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Looks to Spend $3B on Digital TV The digital conversion date keeps getting pushed back. I think everyone was supposed to start broadcasting DTV next year. Now, analog signals will be switched off at the end of 2008\/early 2009. Of course, everyone will need a digital TV (or conversion box) to get the signals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}