{"id":7766,"date":"2009-02-26T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/bidens_website_number.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:16:56","slug":"bidens-website-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/bidens-website-number.html","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Website Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard Vice President Biden&#8217;s reference to website number, I thought for sure the Obama administration was going to earmark (bad choice of words, let&#8217;s try) allocate funding towards Internet numbers or VoIP. Boy was I excited. I later figured out I was wrong. You see, he doesn&#8217;t know that websites have addresses but thinks they have numbers. The fact that our political establishment is so out of touch with technology continues to blow my mind. How could these politicians not get emails that say check out this web address or URL? Staggering really.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nJnJKE8kkmM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nJnJKE8kkmM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Obama and much of his staff seem to be deeply entrenched in the inner workings of tech, social networking and the web. Makes you kind of long for the days when the guy who invented the internet was VP doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard Vice President Biden&#8217;s reference to website number, I thought for sure the Obama administration was going to earmark (bad choice of words, let&#8217;s try) allocate funding towards Internet numbers or VoIP. Boy was I excited. I later figured out I was wrong. You see, he doesn&#8217;t know that websites have addresses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,206,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}