{"id":11559,"date":"2013-11-01T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2013-11-01T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:43:01","slug":"comcast-is-donating-heavily-to-defeat-the-mayor-who-is-bringing-gigabit-fiber-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11559","title":{"rendered":"Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>McGinn&#8217;s major opponent, state Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle), has committed to honoring the city&#8217;s existing contracts for a 14-neighborhood pilot project, but has shown limited enthusiasm about McGinn&#8217;s plans to expand the network in the future. So the election could determine whether Seattle residents have new options for high-speed broadband service, or will have to make do with the slower services already offered by incumbents like Comcast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2013\/10\/31\/comcast-is-donating-heavily-to-defeat-the-mayor-who-is-bringing-gigabit-fiber-to-seattle\/\">Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGinn&#8217;s major opponent, state Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle), has committed to honoring the city&#8217;s existing contracts for a 14-neighborhood pilot project, but has shown limited enthusiasm about McGinn&#8217;s plans to expand the network in the future. So the election could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[635,913,47],"class_list":["post-11559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-comcast","tag-google-fiber","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11560,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}