{"id":36,"date":"2007-07-15T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-07-15T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T21:06:31","slug":"those-annoying-verizon-fios-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/those-annoying-verizon-fios-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Those annoying Verizon FIOS commercials."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in a past life, I worked for a couple of high-tech firms (mostly in the networking arena), so I&#8217;m a little bit familiar with some of the jargon &#8211; familiar enough that those new Verizon FIOS commercials, with their talk of &#8220;dB hot&#8221; and &#8220;true qualm&#8221; (whatever the bleep that is), set off my BS detector. And it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/41miles.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/13\/verizon-fios-commercial-explained\/\">I&#8217;m not alone<\/a>. Turns out that Tom Wright-Piersanti thought the commercial was a little too slick, and he had enough technical knowledge to root out the truth behind those terms. It&#8217;s a good read if those commercials have gotten under your skin as they did mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in a past life, I worked for a couple of high-tech firms (mostly in the networking arena), so I&#8217;m a little bit familiar with some of the jargon &#8211; familiar enough that those new Verizon FIOS commercials, with their talk of &#8220;dB hot&#8221; and &#8220;true qualm&#8221; (whatever the bleep that is), set off my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}