{"id":1334,"date":"2012-02-15T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2012-02-15T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T15:57:08","slug":"is-it-time-to-kill-off-the-phone-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/is-it-time-to-kill-off-the-phone-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time to kill off the phone book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/the-war-on-phone-books\/2012\/02\/14\/gIQAuaFjDR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/phone%20books.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over at Sightline, Clark Williams-Derry is declaring war on the white pages. You remember the white pages, right? Those thick phone books that thud onto everyone\u2019s doormat each year. In the age of Google and unlisted cell phones, phone books are used less and less: One Gallup survey found that, in 2008, just 11 percent of households relied on them. Yet the vast majority of states still have laws mandating their delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The annual paperweight stockpile accumulates. ( Jason Meredith ) That\u2019s led to one of those rare-but-striking points of agreement between conservatives and greens. Groups on the right, like the Heartland Institute, don\u2019t like the undue regulations on businesses. Heartland\u2019s Ken Braun groused last year that, in Michigan alone, the local AT&amp;T affiliate must print and deliver 1.5 billion pages each year \u2014 a pile of phone books nine times the height of Mount Everest \u2014 \u201cregardless of whether the customers want it, just because the government says so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/the-war-on-phone-books\/2012\/02\/14\/gIQAuaFjDR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Is it time to kill off the phone book? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Sightline, Clark Williams-Derry is declaring war on the white pages. You remember the white pages, right? Those thick phone books that thud onto everyone\u2019s doormat each year. In the age of Google and unlisted cell phones, phone books are used less and less: One Gallup survey found that, in 2008, just 11 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[881,859,880,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}