{"id":1917,"date":"2011-01-29T21:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2011-01-29T21:12:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:12:54","slug":"leaving-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Leaving the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Egypt, a country of 80 million, collectively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renesys.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml\">left the Internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this, more than anything, demonstrates that the days (if not the hours) of Mubarak&#8217;s regime are numbered. The damage this step causes to the Egyptian economy are likely quite considerable. And a number of other countries are worried: it appears that a significant share of the data traffic between Europe and Gulf oil states, as well as Asia, passes through Egypt. This connections aren&#8217;t yet affected, but who knows what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>We live in interesting times.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1917' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Egypt, a country of 80 million, collectively left the Internet. I think this, more than anything, demonstrates that the days (if not the hours) of Mubarak&#8217;s regime are numbered. The damage this step causes to the Egyptian economy are likely quite considerable. And a number of other countries are worried: it appears <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1917' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-politics","category-society","category-6-id","category-5-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}