{"id":2189,"date":"2006-07-19T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2006-07-19T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:24:35","slug":"professionally-pleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Professionally Pleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call asking if I wanted to change my long distance service.  Considering that I&#8217;m at work right now, I declined.  I must admit, I did have a fleeting temptation to see if I could have the entire University&#8217;s long distance service re-routed to a different company on my whim.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe had a client in the office while this happened and he said that I was remarkably pleasant to the person on the phone.  I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a fas&ccedil;ade I put on at work to hide my seething hatred of telemarketers.  If they&#8217;d called me at home I&#8217;d be seeing if I could make them cry, or at the very least get them to hang up on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, it&#8217;s been a few months since we last had a telemarketer call us at home.  Either the whole Do Not Call Registry thing is working or I&#8217;ve managed to spread sufficient Fear to keep them at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a call asking if I wanted to change my long distance service. Considering that I&#8217;m at work right now, I declined. I must admit, I did have a fleeting temptation to see if I could have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}