{"id":2506,"date":"2009-12-09T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2009-12-09T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:15:42","slug":"sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"Sponge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, the average person <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/media\/news\/2009\/12\/americans-consume-36-zettabytes-of-data-most-of-it-pixels.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">consumes about 34 gigabytes of data a day<\/a>, much of it in the form of video pixels. Pfft, amateurs. 34 gigs is probably what I consume before lunch on a typical Saturday. Oh, stop looking at me like that. Most of it isn&#8217;t even pr0n.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I wish I could chart my data consumption from the mid-90&#8217;s to today. The trend line probably spiked about seven years ago when I got my broadband connection and has steadily risen ever since then. And even though I should be used to it by now, I continue to be amazed by the sheer vastness of this digital universe we have created for ourselves. One day, the Internet is going to become sentient and we&#8217;re all going to be shipped off to the mines, so we&#8217;d better enjoy the party while it lasts. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, the average person consumes about 34 gigabytes of data a day, much of it in the form of video pixels. Pfft, amateurs. 34 gigs is probably what I consume before lunch on a typical Saturday. Oh, stop looking at me like that. Most of it isn&#8217;t even pr0n. Actually, I <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2506' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-sponge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}