{"id":338,"date":"2003-10-09T19:04:27","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=338"},"modified":"2003-10-09T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T19:04:27","slug":"time-to-sign-up-on-the-do-not-call-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/10\/09\/time-to-sign-up-on-the-do-not-call-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Sign Up On The Do-Not-Call List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call from a telemarketer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ME: Would you please remove my name from your call list?<br \/>\nHIM: Sure, if I can just save you some money, though&#8230;<br \/>\nME: Please just remove my name.<br \/>\nHIM: Sure, but have you ever been open-minded?<br \/>\nME: <span class=\"italic\">surprised laugh<\/span><br \/>\nHIM: See, it&#8217;s funny, huh? Let me just&#8230;<br \/>\nME: <span class=\"italic\">click<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then I had a disturbing thought. I&#8217;ve been getting a lot more unsolicited sales calls recently. And I didn&#8217;t sign up for the national &#8220;do-not-call&#8221; list. If all those millions of people who did sign up are off limits, who are the telemarketers going to call? I&#8217;m guessing those of us who didn&#8217;t sign up are going to be getting a lot more calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call from a telemarketer: ME: Would you please remove my name from your call list? HIM: Sure, if I can just save you some money, though&#8230; ME: Please just remove my name. HIM: Sure, but have you ever been open-minded? ME: surprised laugh HIM: See, it&#8217;s funny, huh? Let me just&#8230;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/10\/09\/time-to-sign-up-on-the-do-not-call-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time To Sign Up On The Do-Not-Call List<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}