{"id":191,"date":"2001-12-01T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2001-12-02T01:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/01\/191.html"},"modified":"2001-12-01T17:53:22","modified_gmt":"2001-12-02T01:53:22","slug":"bozos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/01\/bozos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bozos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a whim, I checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.home.com\/\">Excite@Home Web page<\/a>.  There's no indication that the company is bankrupt and has shut down their service.  To add insult to injury, the front page is a large slow-loading Flash movie with no obvious way to get a non-Flash version, and while it's loading, it displays messages like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>If you were using @Home broadband, this web page would already have loaded.<\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote>With @Home, you wouldn't have to wait.<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bozos.  If @Home hadn't shut down its service, I wouldn't have to wait.  When a Web company goes out of business, if they're going to leave their site up, it behooves them to post a notice about it.  These people are such bozos that they're still letting new customers sign up for their service.  It's too bad, though; it was a good service.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a whim, I checked the Excite@Home Web page. There&#8217;s no indication that the company is bankrupt and has shut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}