{"id":31,"date":"2004-12-31T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/31\/welcome\/"},"modified":"2004-12-31T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T21:40:00","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Welcome&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that I have been encouraged by folks to start a blog.<\/p>\n<p>I tell folks that I only want to deal with ISO layers 3 and below but it seems that I get into these rants with folks that apply to 4 and above and they say it should be documented. Hmmm&#8230; Ok, I&#8217;ll bite.<\/p>\n<p>A little background on me&#8230; One of my main &#8220;themes&#8221; in life is to give tools to the world that help them express their ideas. I have this rather utopian idea that if everyone has tools to exchange ideas then the world will be a better place. Everyone should have access to the printing press and the distribution system to get the ink to the folks that want to read it.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have been involved with starting community radio stations, hooking up personal networks like FidoNet to the Internet, starting ISPs, co-founding anti-spam companies and starting up free community wireless networks.<\/p>\n<p>My actions and thoughts are mainly liberal with some libertarian thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>As you can figure out from above, in the coming posts, I want to cover technology and how it relates to giving folks access to the printing press and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll both see how this goes&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that I have been encouraged by folks to start a blog. I tell folks that I only want to deal with ISO layers 3 and below but it seems that I get into these rants with folks that apply to 4 and above and they say it should be documented. Hmmm&#8230; Ok, I&#8217;ll bite. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}