{"id":508,"date":"2007-11-03T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=508"},"modified":"2007-11-03T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T11:06:00","slug":"cold-callers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/cold-callers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold callers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jimmediaart\/440666771\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/209\/440666771_a03f19dcfb_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\/jimmediaart\/440666771\/\">Birkenhead Park entrance with the traditional BT phone box<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jimmediaart\/\">jimmedia<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I got a call from BT this Saturday morning at 10am. <i>Hello, I&#8217;d like to ask a few questions about why you left BT.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s not like I switched from BT to OneTel recently, it&#8217;s more like two years ago, so I hardly remember my reasons, except that I obviously worked out it&#8217;d be cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>However, I really resent cold callers.  I don&#8217;t want to have my privacy invaded by strangers, especially not when I&#8217;m cosy under my duvet.  If I hadn&#8217;t already left BT, this would be reason enough to leave them!<\/p>\n<p>What kind of people can be tempted back to a company by this type of harassment?<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birkenhead Park entrance with the traditional BT phone box Originally uploaded by jimmedia I got a call from BT this Saturday morning at 10am. Hello, I&#8217;d like to ask a few questions about why you left BT. Now, it&#8217;s not like I switched from BT to OneTel recently, it&#8217;s more like two years ago, so I hardly remember my reasons, except that I obviously worked out it&#8217;d be cheaper. However, I really resent cold callers. I don&#8217;t want to have my privacy invaded by strangers, especially not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}