{"id":6946,"date":"2015-11-08T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2015-11-10T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:12:05","slug":"equalizing-internet-via-the-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/08\/equalizing-internet-via-the-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Equalizing Internet Via The Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/the-land-that-the-internet-forgot\/\" target=\"_blank\">from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Land That the Internet Era Forgot<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<span class=\"link-underline-sm marg-r-sm\">W. RALPH EUBANKS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/delta-mississippi_badge-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"delta-mississippi_badge\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-pin-description=\"The Land That the Internet Era Forgot\" data-ui=\"overlayOpen\" data-order=\"0\" \/><em>Photo\u00a0<span class=\"visually-hidden\">by\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"credit link-underline-sm\">\u00a0TABITHA SOREN<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lede\" tabindex=\"-1\">FOR A GUY\u00a0<\/span>born and raised in Mexico, Roberto Gallardo has an exquisite knack for Southern manners. That\u2019s one of the first things I notice about him when we meet up one recent morning at a deli in Starkville, Mississippi. Mostly it\u2019s the way he punctuates his answers to my questions with a decorous \u201cYes sir\u201d or \u201cNo sir\u201d\u2014a verbal tic I associate with my own Mississippi upbringing in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Gallardo is 36 years old, with a salt-and-pepper beard, oval glasses, and the faint remnant of a Latino accent. He came to Mississippi from Mexico a little more than a decade ago for a doctorate in public policy. Then he never left.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m here in Starkville, sitting in this booth, to learn about the work that has kept Gallardo in Mississippi all these years\u2014work that seems increasingly vital to the future of my home state. I\u2019m also here because Gallardo reminds me of my father.<\/p>\n<p>Gallardo is affiliated with something called the Extension Service, an institution that dates back to the days when America was a nation of farmers. Its original purpose was to disseminate the latest agricultural know-how to all the homesteads scattered across the interior. Using land grant universities as bases of operations, each state\u2019s extension service would deploy a network of experts and \u201ccounty agents\u201d to set up 4-H Clubs or instruct farmers in cultivation science or demonstrate how to can and freeze vegetables without poisoning yourself in your own kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>State extension services still do all this, but Gallardo\u2019s mission is a bit of an update. Rather than teach modern techniques of crop rotation, his job\u2014as an extension professor at Mississippi State University\u2014is to drive around the state in his silver 2013 Nissan Sentra and teach rural Mississippians the value of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/the-land-that-the-internet-forgot\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED The Land That the Internet Era Forgot by\u00a0W. RALPH EUBANKS Photo\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0TABITHA SOREN FOR A GUY\u00a0born and raised in Mexico, Roberto Gallardo has an exquisite knack for Southern manners. That\u2019s one of the first things I notice about him when we meet up one recent morning at a deli in Starkville, Mississippi. Mostly it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}