{"id":580,"date":"2010-02-03T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-02-03T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:05:21","slug":"rotary-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2010\/02\/03\/rotary-dial.html","title":{"rendered":"Rotary Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI checked in on one of my favorite things in New York this afternoon,\u00a0 just to be sure it was present and accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only working rotary dial payphone I know of in NYC. At this rotary one will find current phone books stuffed underneath and to the side.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_8970_002.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-582\" title=\"Rotary Dial Payphone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_8970_002.jpg?resize=488%2C650&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rotary Dial Payphone\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotary Dial Payphone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are other working rotaries in the 5 boroughs. Last year I heard of one in the West Village. And two years ago I heard of another in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>I am not lame enough to just hit up a search engine for clues to this sort of thing. I prefer to learn of things like this from living human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Until I see those other rotary dial payphones for myself, though, I crown this the one and only working rotary in town.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked in on one of my favorite things in New York this afternoon,\u00a0 just to be sure it was present and accounted for. This is the only working rotary dial payphone I know of in NYC. At this rotary one will find current phone books stuffed underneath and to the side. There are other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20150,"comment_status":"open","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","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\/2010\/02\/IMG_8970_002-1.jpg?fit=488%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-9m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}