{"id":560,"date":"2007-04-23T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T04:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/blogging_at_the"},"modified":"2007-04-23T00:38:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T04:38:32","slug":"blogging_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Blogging at the Floyd Country Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=500,height=448,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/countrystoreblogger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/2007\/04\/22\/countrystorebloggerthumb_2.jpg\" title=\"Countrystorebloggerthumb_2\" alt=\"Countrystorebloggerthumb_2\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n The Floyd Country Store is now open 2 days a week! Those of you who are still out in the 24\/7 world may find that amusing, but our one-stoplight county still has a shortage of places to eat lunch, so an additional restaurant is great news, even if it&#8217;s only open on Friday and Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The Floyd Country Store has a menu to die for if you are a connoisseur of simple country snacks and comfort food.&nbsp; Since I am by nature a grazer rather than a serious trencherman, the food here hits the spot.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least four free Wi-Fi hotspots in town, but I am sitting here blogging because the Country Store has 3 mb\/s Wi-Fi and my time is limited.&nbsp; Other hot spots are at the Cafe Del Sol, the Jacksonville Center, and the Floyd Library. There are probably more.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how things are progressing in the wide world outside of Floyd County, VA, but in the year I have been here, I&#8217;ve seen an increasing number of people lugging laptops around and using them while eating breakfast or having coffee. <\/p>\n<p>When I first came here I felt almost like a stranger in a strange land when I carried a laptop. Not so, any more. There are a lot of people doing serious work in every available Internet hotspot.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few students, of course, but most of these mobile warriors wear work clothes and heavy boots rather than urban professional wear. We have a high percentage of self-employed people in this county and they network and do business every day at the restaurants and coffee shops in town.<\/p>\n<p>When a restaurant provides a high speed Internet connection, it is another incentive to eat there and meet there. <\/p>\n<p>What would happen if the entire town of Floyd was one large Wi-Fi hotspot?<\/p>\n<p>Would it would draw more business traffic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Floyd Country Store is now open 2 days a week! Those of you who are still out in the 24\/7 world may find that amusing, but our one-stoplight county still has a shortage of places to eat lunch, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1778],"tags":[1576,136,14,1575,1577],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}