{"id":848,"date":"2004-03-26T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:18:04","slug":"848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/848\/","title":{"rendered":"The horrors of \u2018on hold\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The horrors of &#8216;on hold&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unhappily, as a result of the urban75 server becoming flakier than Cadbury&#8217;s finest, I&#8217;ve found myself becoming heavily acquainted with telephone &#8216;on hold&#8217; music and I can&#8217;t say my life has been enriched by the experience.<\/p>\n<p>My German server host seems to favour a particularly poor line in mid 80s stadium rock, serving up a diet of excruciatingly bad poodle rock that makes five minutes on hold seem like an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a tactic to make callers give up: after all, what kind of man can sustain <strong>eight solid minutes <\/strong>of Phil Collins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horrors of &#8216;on hold&#8217; Unhappily, as a result of the urban75 server becoming flakier than Cadbury&#8217;s finest, I&#8217;ve found myself becoming heavily acquainted with telephone &#8216;on hold&#8217; music and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-848","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}