{"id":82,"date":"2007-03-29T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T11:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-03-29T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T11:56:55","slug":"telkom-excuse-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Telkom excuse of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www\/hellkom.co.za\">Telkom<\/a> came today to sort out the phone line, as the company I share my home\/office with was moving out, and taking the line with them. I was impressed, Telkom arrived on time.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately they didn&#8217;t actually do anything as they were <em>too short to reach the pole<\/em>. They <em>felt precarious<\/em> reaching up so high. Then they left. No new appointment was made.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily the move has been postponed, so I still have a phone line. But this excuse is right up there with the <em>it&#8217;s for the phone book<\/em> answer to some mysterious charges on my account.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=366&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">The Hell that is Telkom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/skins\/crystalglass\/img\/chain_link.gif\">Humanising brands, and Telkom the mugger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=352&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Congratulations TAG<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=267&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Of hosting, the Slashdot effect and, sigh, Telkom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=191&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Sweet, sweet Telkom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=101&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Why I like Telkom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/telkom\" rel=\"tag\">telkom<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/hellkom\" rel=\"tag\">hellkom<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/helkom\" rel=\"tag\">helkom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom came today to sort out the phone line, as the company I share my home\/office with was moving out, and taking the line with them. I was impressed, Telkom arrived on time. Unfortunately they didn&#8217;t actually do anything as they were too short to reach the pole. They felt precarious reaching up so high.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=82\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telkom excuse of the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}