{"id":739134,"date":"2013-02-22T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340756"},"modified":"2013-02-22T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:15:29","slug":"white-house-petition-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-gets-100000-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739134","title":{"rendered":"White House petition to legalize cell phone unlocking gets 100,000 signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/smartphones-347.jpg?w=650&#038;h=437&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C437\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cellphone Unlocking Petition\" title=\"T-Mobile Unlocked iPhone\" \/><\/a><\/center>In a surprising development, it seems that a lot of people don't like being told they can't unlock their cell phones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/02\/21\/172614930\/petition-to-legalize-unlocking-cellphones-meets-white-houses-100k-requirement\"><em>NPR<\/em> reports<\/a> that a petition posted on the White House website asking the Obama administration to \"champion a bill that makes [cell phone] unlocking permanently legal\" has garnered more than 100,000 signatures, which means that the White House by its own rules must now issue a formal response.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/cellphone-unlocking-petition-340756\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/dXSdzyW0VI0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising development, it seems that a lot of people don&#8217;t like being told they can&#8217;t unlock their cell phones. NPR reports that a petition posted on the White House website asking the Obama administration to &#8220;champion a bill that makes [cell phone] unlocking permanently legal&#8221; has garnered more than 100,000 signatures, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}