{"id":89,"date":"2004-08-15T04:22:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T08:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2005-12-08T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T15:38:25","slug":"the-most-expensive-payphone-call-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"The most expensive payphone call EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, anyone dialing the US phone number (248) 771-0023 will be in for some serious sticker shock on the price of payphone calls these days. <\/p>\n

The number appears to be some sort of a test line, or just a really messed up bug in some company’s phone network. No, it won’t give you free long distance calls or allow you to phreak the network or anything. But it is good for a laugh, and near as I can tell, it registers as a network error message and so the call doesn’t actually cost you anything… but we’ll see whether that’s really true when my next phone bill shows up.<\/p>\n

For the dial-skittish, you can listen to the call here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I really do think that the extra seven cents at the end is a nice touch. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

EDIT (December 8, 2005):<\/strong> Aww crap. The number is now disconnected, and no longer plays the recording. Sadly, the website hosting the sound file also appears to be equally “disconnected.” Damn the impermancy of the web, and damn the phone company, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calling this test phone number will give you some serious phone bill sticker shock!<\/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-89","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\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}