{"id":242,"date":"2006-06-13T19:39:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-06-13T19:40:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:40:42","slug":"hi-tone-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/13\/hi-tone-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-tone Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=34741\">this<\/a> might be a case of &#8220;the emperor&#8217;s new tones&#8221; but when I cranked the volume way up I did start to get that nasty sensation that tends to precede a hard drive crash. Since it&#8217;s the same sound used to repel teenage loiterers from hi-tone stores, I suspect that in a class full of people with the necessarily sensitive hearing the owner of the ringing phone will be disciplined by his or her peers without any need for this over-aged instructor to get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought this might be a case of &#8220;the emperor&#8217;s new tones&#8221; but when I cranked the volume way up I did start to get that nasty sensation that tends to precede a hard drive crash. Since it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/13\/hi-tone-phones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}