{"id":16142,"date":"2012-12-11T23:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T04:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16142"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:26:11","slug":"wrong-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wrong-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening, I got a call from the same area code as my cell phone, 701, which is Minot, ND. Experience told me two things. One, it was a wrong number. Two, if I didn’t answer and let the caller know they’d reached the wrong number, the phone would ring a couple more times.<\/p>\n

So I answered, “Hello?”
\n“I want to talk to Jimmy.”
\n“I’m sorry, but you have the wrong number.”
\n“I need to talk to Jimmy! What’s Jimmy’s number?!”
\n“I have no idea. This is a wrong number.”
\n“Oh, sorry I bothered you.”<\/p>\n

After a few similar calls, methinks my number is a digit or two off from that of a favourite Minot pharmaceutical peddler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This evening, I got a call from the same area code as my cell phone, 701, which is Minot, ND. Experience told me two things. One, it was a wrong number. Two, if I didn’t answer and let the caller know they’d reached the wrong number, the phone would ring a couple more times. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}