{"id":18087,"date":"2013-01-09T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=18087"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:54:10","slug":"911-abuse-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/01\/09\/911-abuse-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"How NOT To Use 9-1-1 (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 9-1-1 emergency number has become so common, you&#8217;d think people would know when (and when not) to use it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/police-hamster-birth-bad-pizza-sasquatch-sighting-not-225819203.html\">apparently not.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emergency number is meant<br \/>\nFor a notably urgent event.<br \/>\nSo don&#8217;t call 9-1-1<br \/>\nWhen your steak&#8217;s overdone,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve lost keys, or to vent about rent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Using 911 to report a lion sighting in Virginia is probably okay &#8230; even if it turns out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavy.com\/dpp\/news\/crime\/audio-911-callers-report-seeing-lion\">just a labradoodle groomed to look like a lion<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nena.org\/page\/911overviewfacts\">first U.S. 9-1-1 call<\/a> was made on February 16, 1968.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9-1-1 emergency number has become so common, you&#8217;d think people would know when (and when not) to use it. But apparently not. The emergency number is meant For a notably urgent event. So don&#8217;t call 9-1-1 When your steak&#8217;s overdone, You&#8217;ve lost keys, or to vent about rent. (Using 911 to report a lion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,49,48,41,10,42,119],"tags":[3379,2797,1156,3381,3380,3384,328,3382,3386,3385,3383,1285,4981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18087"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48681,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087\/revisions\/48681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}