{"id":753,"date":"2004-05-07T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/bumbling-tossers\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T11:31:17","slug":"bumbling-tossers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/bumbling-tossers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumbling Tossers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/index.php?vm=106\" target=\"_new\">Deja Vu!<\/a> It took six fucking days to get our phone line switched on, despite the line being there already. We have a week of telephone service and then this morning &#8211; no dial tone. The helpful guy on 151 tells me it&#8217;s an exchange fault and they should be able to get it back up by monday&#8230;. MONDAY ?<br \/>\nWHAT?<br \/>\nMy brain is in a troubled state at the moment and I&#8217;m clinging to any security blankets I can &#8211; ADSL is one of the few things that make me feel comfortable with the world. Sad, but true. Now, thanks to some fuckwit in our local exchange, we&#8217;ve got a &#8220;dry&#8221; weekend to look forward to. No working from home for me&#8230;nothing. I persuaded the guy to make it priority to limit the chances of me going postal.<br \/>\nAs Michele said, it&#8217;s probably easier to get phone service in Iraq at the moment than to get a dial-tone with BT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deja Vu! It took six fucking days to get our phone line switched on, despite the line being there already. We have a week of telephone service and then this morning &#8211; no dial tone. The helpful guy on 151 tells me it&#8217;s an exchange fault and they should be able to get it back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}