{"id":23184,"date":"2009-08-02T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2016-09-11T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T15:22:15","slug":"internet-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/internet-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One conclusion I&#8217;ve reached in my year on the road is that I need to regain my internet independence.<\/p>\n<p>It is unrealistic to expect RV parks to provide even the minimum amount of internet service someone of my generation needs. I use the internet for everything and I have high bandwidth needs, from posting photos online to watching videos to Skyping. \u00a0I have been playing by park rules as much as possible this summer and it&#8217;s really starting to cramp my style. There is so much I&#8217;d like to post to the blog and the blog is just one small part of my online activities.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t envision being able to afford a tripod satellite system and air cards, a burgeoning technology in Canada, won&#8217;t work where I spend most of my time. Next year in Dawson, I&#8217;m going to see about having my own personal DSL account right at my site. In the meantime, I try to surf like it&#8217;s 1996 and I&#8217;m on minute-by-minute dial up. Nostalgia isn&#8217;t much to be cracked up about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One conclusion I&#8217;ve reached in my year on the road is that I need to regain my internet independence. It is unrealistic to expect RV parks to provide even the minimum amount of internet service someone of my generation needs. I use the internet for everything and I have high bandwidth needs, from posting photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,635,5,9,3,1040],"tags":[1469],"class_list":["post-23184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-tech","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}