{"id":13751,"date":"2024-03-17T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/internet-providers-have-left-rural-americans-behind-one-county-is-fighting-back\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:37:36","slug":"internet-providers-have-left-rural-americans-behind-one-county-is-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/internet-providers-have-left-rural-americans-behind-one-county-is-fighting-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhere<\/p>\n<p>Orangeburg, South Carolina, is <em>not<\/em> the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an hour south of Columbia. It\u2019s an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It\u2019s an hour and a half away from Augusta. It\u2019s just country enough to be out of the way but tantalizingly close to somewhere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/17\/rural-broadband-us-internet-providers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ff2d6d0e55f6ee85eb50e1f530706f5be301d5fc\/0_24_4279_2567\/master\/4279.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=88484f0dc5dd9df12009079e0f902351\" title=\"Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back\" \/>Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhere<br \/>\nOrangeburg, South Carolina, is not the middle of nowhere.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s an hour south of Columbia. It\u2019s an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It\u2019s an hour and a half away from Augusta. It\u2019s just country enough to be out of the way but tantalizingly close to somewhere. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhere Orangeburg, South Carolina, is not the middle of nowhere. It\u2019s an hour south of Columbia. It\u2019s an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It\u2019s an hour and a half away from Augusta. It\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/internet-providers-have-left-rural-americans-behind-one-county-is-fighting-back\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}