{"id":14944,"date":"2017-12-03T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=14944"},"modified":"2017-12-03T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:23:45","slug":"call-from-the-rogue-payphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/12\/03\/call-from-the-rogue-payphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Call From the Rogue Payphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14944-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/rogue-payphone-call-2017-12-02_001.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/rogue-payphone-call-2017-12-02_001.mp3\">https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/rogue-payphone-call-2017-12-02_001.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The photo below is not of the rogue payphone from which the above call was made, though the rogue did have an identical sticker affixed to it. I don&#8217;t know who is responsible for this little graffiti campaign but I concur with it in spirit, if not literally. There should be a quantity of payphones that the public can turn to in emergencies and which they can expect to work. I don&#8217;t know if New York needs <em>more<\/em> of these things but the wholesale routing of these devices is an obvious public safety hazard. Transcript of the call is below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14946\" style=\"width: 818px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14946\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14946\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/2017-12-02-15.42.31-1024x576.jpg?resize=808%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"We Need More Pay Phones\" width=\"808\" height=\"455\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We Need More Pay Phones<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Well I&#8217;m impressed. The Rogue Payphone still works. I haven&#8217;t been up in here in probably a couple of months. It&#8217;s 54th Street\/Broadway and Northern. Three-way intersection. More like a four-way intersection, actually.<\/p>\n<p>I slept &#8217;til 1:30 and I don&#8217;t even feel bad about it. I don&#8217;t feel anything anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing and I&#8217;m making text to speech notes for the story that I need to finish. But&#8230; there&#8217;s really no rush but I do want to get it done and as often happens the story feels better in my mind than it ends up being on paper. I gotta do an outline, or something more organized.<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of extra research and found that I didn&#8217;t really need to do that. I just gotta focus on three products. And the <em>2001 A Space Odyssey<\/em> hook is going to be a keeper.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;m just out walking a little bit before settling down for the night. I&#8230; think I have a date for tomorrow. We&#8217;ll see if she shows up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo below is not of the rogue payphone from which the above call was made, though the rogue did have an identical sticker affixed to it. I don&#8217;t know who is responsible for this little graffiti campaign but I concur with it in spirit, if not literally. There should be a quantity of payphones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phone-call","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-02-15.42.31-1024x576-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3T2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}