{"id":487,"date":"2002-06-19T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2002-06-20T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/06\/19\/487.html"},"modified":"2002-06-19T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2002-06-20T00:33:37","slug":"more-phone-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/06\/19\/more-phone-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"More phone fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The perils of working at home, Act 38 or so:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ring.  Ring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Hello, this is Jed.<\/p>\n<p>[brief pause, during which I realize that it's a sales call but am not quite fast enough to hang up.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him<\/strong>: Hello?<\/p>\n<p>[pause as I try to decide whether it's too late to just hang up.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him<\/strong>: Hello?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong> [resigned]: Hello, this is Jed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him<\/strong>: Hi, Jake, I'm calling from the Mercury News&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Could you remove me from your calling list?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him<\/strong>: Certainly.  What's your number?<\/p>\n<p>[pause.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: You just called me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him<\/strong>: I know, but it's on a computer, and we can't see the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about it for a few seconds, decided there wasn't any harm in telling him my number, and told him.  But still.  If the main Merc office were open, I'd call to complain; I shouldn't have to give them any extra information to get myself off their list.<\/p>\n<p>Grr.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perils of working at home, Act 38 or so: Ring. Ring. Me: Hello, this is Jed. [brief pause, during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}