{"id":11691,"date":"2014-11-11T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11691"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T21:31:10","slug":"please-hold-for-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/please-hold-for-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Hold For The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111114_2126_PleaseHoldF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Fernholz wrote about some business research sponsored by DHL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The map above depicts the volume of phone calls between countries.<\/li>\n<li>The average international phone call travels over 4,000 km.<\/li>\n<li>The average person spends 152 minutes a year talking to somebody in a foreign country \u2013 up from 88 minutes in 2005.<\/li>\n<li>7.7% of all international phone calls are from the US to Mexico and 3.2% are from the US to India.<\/li>\n<li>41% of all calls go from developed countries to developing ones while just 9% go the other way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about popular non-US telephone connections, why this shows that the earth isn&#8217;t flat, and see\u00a0an alternative depiction of the data above <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/290868\/this-map-of-international-phone-calls-explains-globalization\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/290868\/this-map-of-international-phone-calls-explains-globalization\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Fernholz wrote about some business research sponsored by DHL: The map above depicts the volume of phone calls between countries. The average international phone call travels over 4,000 km. The average person spends 152 minutes a year talking to somebody in a foreign country \u2013 up from 88 minutes in 2005. 7.7% of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111114_2126_PleaseHoldF1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11694,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions\/11694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}