{"id":127,"date":"2007-07-24T04:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-07-24T04:12:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:12:02","slug":"never-talk-to-a-machine-longer-than-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"never talk to a machine longer than necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/norobot.gif' align='right' hspace='3' alt='No Robots' \/>I personally don&#8217;t find it to be great fun to talk to machines when I&#8217;m trying to get help by calling customer service numbers. A genuine, bona fide person is usually able to direct me more efficiently to what I need than a tone-deaf, humorless computer who doesn&#8217;t understand the irritation in my voice when I have to repeat something several times. Fortunately, someone else at Gethuman.com must&#8217;ve been equally annoyed, and made an easy way to connect to real people through their <a href=\"http:\/\/gethuman.com\/\">frequently-updated list of &#8220;cheats&#8221; to be able to reach a live person<\/a> via a multitude of companies&#8217; customer service numbers. Nifty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I personally don&#8217;t find it to be great fun to talk to machines when I&#8217;m trying to get help by calling customer service numbers. A genuine, bona fide person is usually able to direct me more efficiently to what I need than a tone-deaf, humorless computer who doesn&#8217;t understand the irritation in my voice when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}