{"id":23441,"date":"2016-03-12T02:48:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/white-house-pushes-plan-to-bring-broadband-to-20m-more-americans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:31","slug":"white-house-pushes-plan-to-bring-broadband-to-20m-more-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/white-house-pushes-plan-to-bring-broadband-to-20m-more-americans","title":{"rendered":"White House Pushes Plan to Bring Broadband to 20M More Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-house-pushes-plan-to-bring-broadband-to-20m-more-americans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Obama announced a new initiative this week to connect 20 million more Americans to broadband by 2020, further promoting the White House\u2019s agenda to reclassify high speed Internet as a public utility, like water or electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The digital initiative, named ConnectALL, is intended \u201cfor folks looking for jobs or workers hoping to learn new skills,\u201d wrote Obama in a Facebook post, acknowledging that in today\u2019s economy, \u201cthe Internet isn\u2019t a luxury \u2014 it\u2019s a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/white-house-pushes-plan-bring-broadband-20m-more-americans-n536731\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/white-house-pushes-pla...ns-n536731<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama announced a new initiative this week to connect 20 million more Americans to broadband by 2020, further promoting the White House\u2019s agenda to reclassify high speed Internet as a public utility, like water or electricity. The digital initiative, named ConnectALL, is intended \u201cfor folks looking for jobs or workers hoping to learn new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68053,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions\/68053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}