{"id":488,"date":"2007-10-10T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=488"},"modified":"2007-10-10T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:31:00","slug":"the-country-without-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-country-without-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"The country without phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/revdancatt\/535514134\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/249\/535514134_c3c01682d4_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/revdancatt\/535514134\/\">Old Fashioned Phone<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/revdancatt\/\">Rev Dan Catt<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>When I bought the flat in Rose Street (which is still <a href=\"http:\/\/twid.bibulus.org\/2007\/08\/flat-for-sale.html\">for sale,<\/a> in case anybody is interested), I was shocked to find out it didn&#8217;t have a phone connection.  Now, you might expect something like that in a new flat, but my flat is about a century old, so apparently nobody ever in all those years thought a phone would be a convenient thing to have.  I know the engineer had to drill a hole through the thick sandstone wall, so I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any way there can ever have been one before.<\/p>\n<p>I obviously thought this was an exceptional case.  So imagine the shock I got when I called BT today to get a phone line for our new house, and they told me there isn&#8217;t a connection, and I need to pay another \u00a3125 for an engineer to come round!  I know the house is only between 30 and 40 years old, but I still think it sounds bizarre they never had a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, perhaps BT will realize they&#8217;ve made an error an refund the money afterwards.  In my dreams, I fear! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Will I personally have to pay for wiring up the entire country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Fashioned Phone Originally uploaded by Rev Dan Catt When I bought the flat in Rose Street (which is still for sale, in case anybody is interested), I was shocked to find out it didn&#8217;t have a phone connection. Now, you might expect something like that in a new flat, but my flat is about a century old, so apparently nobody ever in all those years thought a phone would be a convenient thing to have. I know the engineer had to drill a hole through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}