{"id":903,"date":"2010-04-08T04:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=903"},"modified":"2022-03-03T04:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:15:53","slug":"almost-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/almost-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Weekend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-21.png 750w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-21-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was on the line with some level-one (read: low) phone operator yesterday at Disney. He was supposed to find me information on pricing for Epcot Center, and instead of putting me on hold, decided to put me in a strange silence. Only it wasn&#8217;t absolute silence &#8211; I could still hear the background noise, and him BREATHING.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creepy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People just don&#8217;t know basic phone etiquette anymore. Either put me on F#####G hold (trust me &#8211; I rather be listening to Michael Bolton than you breathing), or just push the MUTE button. Anything but awkward silence &#8211; those are for fights with your parents, response when your husband tells you he is leaving you, or if your best friend tells you he\/she is gay and has a crush on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This operator&#8217;s boss should be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, if you haven&#8217;t noticed &#8211; the allergies is bothering me, and I forgot to buy any meds for it&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture above is from Shinjuku (Tokyo) a few years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the line with some level-one (read: low) phone operator yesterday at Disney. He was supposed to find me information on pricing for Epcot Center, and instead of putting me on hold, decided to put me in a strange silence. Only it wasn&#8217;t absolute silence &#8211; I could still hear the background noise,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-21.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}