{"id":362,"date":"2006-03-19T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T22:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/03\/19\/you-need-to-read-this\/"},"modified":"2006-03-19T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T22:17:47","slug":"you-need-to-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/19\/you-need-to-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"You Need To Read This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re following this story, but no one has explained it more clearly than this guy in &quot;The New Yorker&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>This may sound like science fiction, but this battle is VERY real.\u00c2\u00a0 The ISPs ARE trying to do this.\u00c2\u00a0 Editorials have appeared in major newspapers taking the same position, but they only demonstrate the difference between good and bad writing.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A great writer gets his message across in a way that resonates.\u00c2\u00a0 This resonates.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>And since you&#8217;re reading THIS via the Internet, you should read this article.<\/p>\n<p>The problem we have in society at large is ignorance.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, ignorance is not eradicated by TV news solely interested in ratings.\u00c2\u00a0 The real issues are not delineated in a sexy way.\u00c2\u00a0 But this guy makes this story come alive.<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/articles\/060320ta_talk_surowiecki\" target=\"_blank\">THE FINANCIAL PAGE<br \/>NET LOSSES<br \/>by James Surowiecki<br \/>Issue of 2006-03-20<br \/>Posted 2006-03-13<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re following this story, but no one has explained it more clearly than this guy in &quot;The New Yorker&quot;. This may sound like science fiction, but this battle is VERY real.\u00c2\u00a0 The ISPs ARE trying to do this.\u00c2\u00a0 Editorials have appeared in major newspapers taking the same position, but they only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}