{"id":32393,"date":"2022-08-08T18:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32393"},"modified":"2022-08-08T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:34:32","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/08\/08\/highlights.html","title":{"rendered":"Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"
First call of the day\u00a0 was someone saying “YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE.” I don’t remember what I said but his response was “ANYONE WHO WOULD ANSWER THIS PHONE IS AN ASSHOLE.” That was a zesty start to this Monday.<\/p>\n

Next call was from someone in South Texas saying he was watching a couple more busloads of illegal aliens head from Texas to New York. “ENJOY THE ILLEGALS!”

I just noticed that a call from an upper east side dude, his phone number is almost identical to the number I had when I lived on the UES. Just two digits switched. There’s something to be done with that. A wrong number operetta. I program a PBX to robodial numbers close to all my former numbers, asking for me. It would make great energy.<\/p>\n

There is something intricately complex about a phone number. Not just the front end it provides to the phone system itself but, at times, the number’s age and thus its owners age.<\/p>\n

But then the possibillity of a wrong number. WHo knows whose soul you rattled with the possibility that someone was actually calling them? That sense of importance, anticipation, all deflated when the truth is revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First call of the day\u00a0 was someone saying “YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE.” I don’t remember what I said but his response was “ANYONE WHO WOULD ANSWER THIS PHONE IS AN ASSHOLE.” That was a zesty start to this Monday. Next call was from someone in South Texas saying he was watching a couple more busloads of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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_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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8qt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393","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=32393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}