{"id":690,"date":"2004-10-21T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/21\/10-21-04\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:13:10","slug":"my-phone-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/my-phone-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"My Phone Crashed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACMCJKDKCCKCKCKAATTTT!<\/p>\n<p>My phone crashed just a second ago. And it isn&#8217;t even one of those high tech phones! It&#8217;s a Southwestern Bell Freedom Phone&#8230;. you know&#8230; your standard Slimline phone. I was winding my way though my health insurance provider&#8217;s phone tree hell&#8230;. pushing way too many buttons so they could save a few cents. So I was typing in my social security number and the number &#8216;6&#8217; on my phone wouldn&#8217;t work. I could still hear the automated sexpot asking for my most intimate numbers.. I could hear my own heavy breathing in the receiver but the number 6 wouldn&#8217;t work.  And then&#8230; none of the numbers would work! I started banging furiously&#8230;. Star, Pound, 1, 6, 9.. my phone was sick! Just as I was about to hang up, the phone comes out of it&#8217;s trance, &#8220;beep, bEEpbEEPBeepBEEPbeepbeepBEEPbeep, BeEp!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhhh! The future of the universe is in the hands of chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACMCJKDKCCKCKCKAATTTT! My phone crashed just a second ago. And it isn&#8217;t even one of those high tech phones! It&#8217;s a Southwestern Bell Freedom Phone&#8230;. you know&#8230; your standard Slimline phone. I was winding my way though my health insurance provider&#8217;s phone tree hell&#8230;. pushing way too many buttons so they could save a few cents. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}