{"id":300292,"date":"2017-04-12T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1b0a0949c5d14118d168c3a25f865019"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:00:02","slug":"is-there-room-for-broadband-in-the-trump-infrastructure-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=300292","title":{"rendered":"Is there room for broadband in the Trump infrastructure agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A promise to restore America&#8217;s crumbling infrastructure was a key part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign speeches. He pledged to rebuild America&#8217;s roads and bridges, ports and highways, which are undoubtedly in need of repair. Less clear in his speeches \u2013 and in these early days of his administration \u2013 is what importance he gives broadband internet, an equally essential infrastructure in our 21st-century information economy. A quarter of Americans still have no broadband, and 12 percent live in places where they can get service from only one provider or none at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A promise to restore America&#8217;s crumbling infrastructure was a key part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign speeches. He pledged to rebuild America&#8217;s roads and bridges, ports and highways, which are undoubtedly in need of repair. Less clear in his speeches &ndash; and in these early days of his administration &ndash; is what importance he gives broadband internet, an equally essential infrastructure in our 21st-century information economy. A quarter of Americans still have no broadband, and 12 percent live in places where they can get service from only one provider or none at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300293,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300292\/revisions\/300293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}