{"id":176,"date":"2004-02-11T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-02-11T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T16:59:57","slug":"service-to-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Service to the State!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Christian Science Monitor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alcatel, the telecommunications equipment giant, said it will merge its optical fiber business with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakaholding.com\/drakaholding\/html\/index1.htm\">Draka Holding NV<\/a>, which operates companies involved in producing and selling low-voltage and special-purpose cable systems. Analysts said the move will pose a direct challenge to Corning Inc. of the US, the world leader in fiber-optic cable. Alcatel is based in Paris; Draka in Amsterdam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess Gwen Mk II is starting to make her play.  A few megatons ought to teach her better, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Christian Science Monitor: Alcatel, the telecommunications equipment giant, said it will merge its optical fiber business with Draka Holding NV, which operates companies involved in producing and selling low-voltage and special-purpose cable systems. Analysts said the move will pose a direct challenge to Corning Inc. of the US, the world leader in fiber-optic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Service to the State!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}