{"id":31601,"date":"2016-11-01T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/centurylink-buys-level-3-for-34-billion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:18:29","slug":"centurylink-buys-level-3-for-34-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/centurylink-buys-level-3-for-34-billion","title":{"rendered":"CenturyLink Buys Level 3 for $34 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/centurylink-buys-level-3-for-34-billion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CenturyLink is buying Level 3 in a transaction valued at $34 billion; the combined company will boast 450,000 route miles of fiber.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/articles\/news\/centurylink-buys-level-3-34-billion\/2016\/10\/?utm_source=SDxCentral.com+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=ba78f47c95-SDxCentral+Daily+Newsletter+10%2F31%2F16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c2b6e504a2-ba78f47c95-81805421\">https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/articles\/news\/centurylink-buys-le...5;81805421<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CenturyLink is buying Level 3 in a transaction valued at $34 billion; the combined company will boast 450,000 route miles of fiber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59884,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions\/59884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}