{"id":10312,"date":"2014-06-29T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2014-06-29T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:12:14","slug":"sunday-nerding-cable-to-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2014\/06\/sunday-nerding-cable-to-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nerding: Cable To The Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a cheesy &#8211; (and admittedly self-promoting) &#8211; video from AT&#038;T about the laying of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TAT-2\">TAT-2 submarine cable<\/a> in 1959.  <\/p>\n<p>Designed to provide a whopping &#8220;36 or more interference free telephone circuits&#8221; between Newfoundland and France, the video details the long and difficult process in laying that cable more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqRj3lvvg7Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>The process today isn&#8217;t all that different, but the challenges are considerably better understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a cheesy &#8211; (and admittedly self-promoting) &#8211; video from AT&#038;T about the laying of the TAT-2 submarine cable in 1959. Designed to provide a whopping &#8220;36 or more interference free telephone circuits&#8221; between Newfoundland and France, the video details the long and difficult process in laying that cable more than 50 years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-sundaynerding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}