{"id":1451,"date":"2009-06-16T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:55:56","slug":"why-are-text-message-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/16\/why-are-text-message-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Text Message So Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the cell phone companies will be <a href=\"http:\/\/mynewsjunkie.com\/2009\/06\/15\/cell-phone-execs-will-face-questions-on-text-messaging-price-hikes\/\">answering questions today<\/a> in a US Senate committee hearing on the rapid rise of text messaging costs to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The true answer, of course, is that vowels are so expensive to buy.  At least that&#8217;s what I learned from Wheel of Fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the cell phone companies will be answering questions today in a US Senate committee hearing on the rapid rise of text messaging costs to consumers. The true answer, of course, is that vowels are so expensive to buy. At least that&#8217;s what I learned from Wheel of Fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,4],"tags":[62,205,217,449,61],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-technology","tag-cell-phones","tag-government","tag-senate","tag-technology","tag-text-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}