{"id":13762,"date":"2012-04-19T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:19:24","slug":"tethered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/tethered\/","title":{"rendered":"Tethered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderfully awesome friends <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonourark.sicottepress.ca\">Ken and Donna<\/a> gave me their US Verizon cell phone that can be used as an internet modem. A lot of money, several phone calls to tech, and about five hours later, I&#8217;m finally online with a connection similar to what I get with my internet key in Canada. I also have a US phone number. I am shocked by how easy the activation process was. I know that a few short years ago, I would have needed a US credit card and SSN. Today, they were able to run a Canadian credit check (must have been good since I didn&#8217;t need to make a deposit) and all they wanted beyond that was a US address, which I was able to give them since my best friend told me I could use hers.<\/p>\n<p>Getting on was so hard that I&#8217;m afraid to log off! But I badly need groceries. I spent some time trying to find the nearest grocery store when I remembered that I am parked at a Super Walmart. Doh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderfully awesome friends Ken and Donna gave me their US Verizon cell phone that can be used as an internet modem. A lot of money, several phone calls to tech, and about five hours later, I&#8217;m finally online with a connection similar to what I get with my internet key in Canada. I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,5,9,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-rving","category-tech","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}