{"id":1132,"date":"2006-03-31T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/telkom-sucks\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:49:25","slug":"telkom-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/telkom-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been offline (and sans phone!) for three days now (and counting). Am writing from David Krut studios, stealing their bandwidth. You&#8217;d think that telkom&#8217;d at minimum, pro-rate me; but no, Telkom will charge me (out the nose) for my time offline and sans voice.<\/p>\n<p>We. Hate. Them.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is Satan. <a href=\"http:\/\/hellkom.co.za\/\">See?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been offline (and sans phone!) for three days now (and counting). Am writing from David Krut studios, stealing their bandwidth. You&#8217;d think that telkom&#8217;d at minimum, pro-rate me; but no, Telkom will charge me (out the nose) for my time offline and sans voice. We. Hate. Them. Telkom is Satan. See?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-ig","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":881,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/how-expensive-is-telkom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1132,"position":0},"title":"how expensive is Telkom&#8230;?","author":"AJ","date":"03 November 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"A cost comparrison of ways to download data","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AJ Venter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AJ Venter","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/aj-venter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":958,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/the-whitney-biennial\/","url_meta":{"origin":1132,"position":1},"title":"the whitney biennial","author":"nathaniel","date":"03 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you guys know that the next Whitney Biennial will show more than just American artists? 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