{"id":950,"date":"2020-08-20T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/?p=950"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:25:56","slug":"our-school-lost-the-pay-phone-because-of-phreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2020\/08\/20\/our-school-lost-the-pay-phone-because-of-phreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Our school lost the pay-phone because of phreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in middle-school, a rumor went around that you could make free long-distance calls by dialing 9-9-1 before the phone-number because it was some sort of phone-company code. I don&#8217;t know if that was true, if someone was trolling, or it was just a misunderstanding of stories about phreaking with the Cap&#8217;n Crunch whistle, but a bunch of kids tried it. I doubt it worked (I think I might have tried it from a payphone in the street once, but definitely didn&#8217;t get it to work), but enough kids in our school tried it with the pay-phone at school but did it wrong and dialed 9-1-1 instead of 9-9-1, that 911 complained to the school, and the principal had the phone removed. \ud83e\udd26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in middle-school, a rumor went around that you could make free long-distance calls by dialing 9-9-1 before the phone-number because it was some sort of phone-company code. I don&#8217;t know if that was true, if someone was trolling, or it was just a misunderstanding of stories about phreaking with the Cap&#8217;n Crunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}