{"id":2535,"date":"2004-05-27T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T08:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/28\/how-to-make-friends-by-telephone\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:50:55","slug":"how-to-make-friends-by-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/how-to-make-friends-by-telephone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make friends by telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?rank=&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcontactsheet.org%2Fjunk%2Ftelephone1.html&amp;sub=Go%21\" title=\"Links to the telephone booklet\">linking to<\/a> this <a href=\"http:\/\/contactsheet.org\/junk\/telephone1.html\" title=\"How to make friends by telephone\">1940&#8217;s era booklet on the then-newish telephone system<\/a> and commenting on how amusing it is.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, after flipping through the pages, I&#8217;m struck by how much more bearable many phone conversations these days would be if people would keep these pointers in mind.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/05\/27\/1940s_telephone_manu.html\" title=\"1940s Telephone Manual\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Storm 3000&#8221; by Leftfield from the album <em>Leftism<\/em> (1995, 5:43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are linking to this 1940&#8217;s era booklet on the then-newish telephone system and commenting on how amusing it is. As for me, after flipping through the pages, I&#8217;m struck by how much more bearable many phone conversations these days would be if people would keep these pointers in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}