{"id":10063,"date":"2011-07-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/07\/26\/no-were-not-going-to-play-stairway-to-heaven-and-please-tell-everbody-else-in-your-area-code-to-stop-calling-me\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:00:00","slug":"no-were-not-going-to-play-stairway-to-heaven-and-please-tell-everbody-else-in-your-area-code-to-stop-calling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110726-00\/?p=10063","title":{"rendered":"No, we&#039;re not going to play Stairway to Heaven, and please tell everbody else in your area code to stop calling me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I told the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/12\/25\/9941073.aspx\"> how one employee&#8217;s phone received calls intended for a local radio station&#8217;s contest line<\/a> due to people dialing seven digits instead of ten and defaulting to the wrong area code.\n Upon reading that story, a colleague of mine pointed out that one of the conference rooms in his building has a similar problem. The direct line for the conference room is identical to the request line for a local radio station, save for the area code. People who work in the building know never to answer the phone in that conference room.<\/p>\n<p> (Although apparently there have been a couple of pranks involving the <i>call-forwarding<\/i> function on the conference room telephone.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I told the story of how one employee&#8217;s phone received calls intended for a local radio station&#8217;s contest line due to people dialing seven digits instead of ten and defaulting to the wrong area code. Upon reading that story, a colleague of mine pointed out that one of the conference rooms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, I told the story of how one employee&#8217;s phone received calls intended for a local radio station&#8217;s contest line due to people dialing seven digits instead of ten and defaulting to the wrong area code. Upon reading that story, a colleague of mine pointed out that one of the conference rooms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}