{"id":45326,"date":"2022-02-07T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=45326"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:54:48","slug":"music-on-hold-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2022\/02\/07\/music-on-hold-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting &#8220;Thank-Yous&#8221; On Hold (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArrantPedantry\/status\/1489308598526423042\">Jonathon Owen tweet<\/a> reawakened one of my old pet peeves and inspired my limerick: &#8220;Hold music that is interrupted every two seconds by a message thanking you for your patience and asking you to remain on the line is a form of psychological torture.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dear &#8220;Firms Who Use Music-On-Hold,&#8221;<br \/>\nMoldy messages swiftly grow old.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not &#8220;patiently waiting.&#8221;<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t thank me; it&#8217;s grating.<br \/>\nSo stop breaking in!  I&#8217;m not sold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Jonathon Owen tweet reawakened one of my old pet peeves and inspired my limerick: &#8220;Hold music that is interrupted every two seconds by a message thanking you for your patience and asking you to remain on the line is a form of psychological torture.&#8221; Dear &#8220;Firms Who Use Music-On-Hold,&#8221; Moldy messages swiftly grow old. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,42,3,119],"tags":[6088,642,6089,4903,532,4981,6090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326"}],"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=45326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45328,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions\/45328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}