{"id":24930,"date":"2017-12-01T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24930"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:07:12","slug":"the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/12\/01\/the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NPR<\/em> has the fascinating story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2013\/10\/04\/229224964\/episode-489-the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe just need Amazon&#8217;s bank to send money electronically to a checking account at Chase bank. It&#8217;s just information traveling over wires. How long could it take: A minute? An hour?<\/p>\n<p>It took five days.<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s show: Why the invisible pipes that move money around America are so slow. (And why the ones in England are so much faster.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/229224964\/229341574\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has the fascinating story Episode 489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy. We just need Amazon&#8217;s bank to send money electronically to a checking account at Chase bank. It&#8217;s just information traveling over wires. How long could it take: A minute? An hour? It took five days. On today&#8217;s show: Why the invisible pipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24932,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions\/24932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}