{"id":604,"date":"2007-02-12T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=604"},"modified":"2007-02-12T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T02:12:13","slug":"sprint-the-indie-rockers-of-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Sprint, the indie rockers of wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Broken + \"Sprint<\/p>\n

I just had the dubious honor of discovering that I have Sprint’s default call center hold music in my music library.<\/p>\n

For anyone who’s interested, the name of the song is “Cranley’s Gonna Make It” by Broken Social Scene. It’s the last track off the “Feel Good Lost<\/a>” album released in 2001. Anyone with iTunes can search the music store for “Feel Good Lost” and find it. Double clicking on the track will give you a free 30 second snippet.<\/p>\n

If you’re brave enough to buy the track (it’s 99 cents), you’ll find that Sprint’s call centers seem very fond of the parts of the song just after 1:31 into the track, and then again after 4:00.<\/p>\n

It’s a catchy tune, and sounds much better in stereo at full bitrate. Too bad every time I hear it now, I have the urge to be ready to recite my PCS phone number starting with the area code, and account password.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what’s worse: that I’m THAT much into indie music have this song in my music library, or that I’ve been on hold with Sprint’s customer service department long enough to identify their hold music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

+ I just had the dubious honor of discovering that I have Sprint’s default call center hold music in my music library. For anyone who’s interested, the name of the song is “Cranley’s Gonna Make It” by Broken Social Scene. It’s the last track off the “Feel Good Lost” album released in 2001. Anyone with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}