{"id":120886,"date":"2021-03-25T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/rural-iowans-seeing-benefits-from-spacex-starlink-internet"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:25:50","slug":"rural-iowans-seeing-benefits-from-spacex-starlink-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/rural-iowans-seeing-benefits-from-spacex-starlink-internet","title":{"rendered":"Rural Iowans seeing benefits from SpaceX Starlink internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rural-iowans-seeing-benefits-from-spacex-starlink-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many Iowans, the first they heard of SpaceX Starlink Internet is when the<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs2iowa.com\/news\/local\/spacex-satellites-spotted-over-eastern-iowa\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs2iowa.com\/news\/local\/spacex-satellites-spotted-over-eastern-iowa\" class=\"\"> strange lights started appearing<\/a> in the night sky in <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs2iowa.com\/news\/local\/spacex-starlink-satellites-light-up-wednesday-morning-over-iowa\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs2iowa.com\/news\/local\/spacex-starlink-satellites-light-up-wednesday-morning-over-iowa\" class=\"\">Spring 2020<\/a>. Long \u201ctrains\u201d of dots, each dot being a Starlink satellite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s all these lights and what looked to me like they were jets,\u201d said John Dunnegan a resident living in rural Des Moines County, Iowa northwest of Burlington. \u201cI thought we were being attacked by Russia. I thought \u2018what is that?\u2019 They were all in perfect file. I got on the internet started checking around, and found out what it was. It was Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many Iowans, the first they heard of SpaceX Starlink Internet is when the strange lights started appearing in the night sky in Spring 2020. Long \u201ctrains\u201d of dots, each dot being a Starlink satellite. \u201cThere\u2019s all these lights and what looked to me like they were jets,\u201d said John Dunnegan a resident living in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}