{"id":3090,"date":"2013-07-12T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:23:53","slug":"indias-telegram-service-goes-dark-after-163-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/12\/indias-telegram-service-goes-dark-after-163-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s telegram service goes dark after 163 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/indias-telegram-goes-dark-163-years-065614283.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"In this Friday, June 14, 2013 photo, a staff member of the central telegraph office shows an old telegraphic equipment which is no longer in use, in Mumbai, India. Just three decades ago - before reliable landlines were laid and well before the age of cheap cellphones arrived - the telegram was king across the vast Indian nation. On Monday, July 15, 2013, the state-run telecommunications company will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast became a relic in an age of email, reliable land lines and ubiquitous cellphones. (AP Photo\/Rajanish Kakade)\" height=\"86\" alt=\"In this Friday, June 14, 2013 photo, a staff member of the central telegraph office shows an old telegraphic equipment which is no longer in use, in Mumbai, India. Just three decades ago - before reliable landlines were laid and well before the age of cheap cellphones arrived - the telegram was king across the vast Indian nation. On Monday, July 15, 2013, the state-run telecommunications company will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast became a relic in an age of email, reliable land lines and ubiquitous cellphones. (AP Photo\/Rajanish Kakade)\" width=\"130\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l3.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/1lWiblhZBGXZ3wTrhgxJWg--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-\/http%3A\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/ap_webfeeds\/4df8b0f84cc55517370f6a70670042be.jpg?resize=130%2C86\" border=\"0\"><\/a>NEW DELHI (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d For 163 years, lives across the vast Indian nation have been upended by the knock of the khaki-clad postal worker armed with a telegram.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>via Yahoo! News &#8211; Latest News &#038; Headlines http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/indias-telegram-goes-dark-163-years-065614283.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d For 163 years, lives across the vast Indian nation have been upended by the knock of the khaki-clad postal worker armed with a telegram. via Yahoo! News &#8211; Latest News &#038; Headlines http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/indias-telegram-goes-dark-163-years-065614283.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-NQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}