{"id":178234,"date":"2019-02-01T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/01\/i-would-have-figured-that-the-number-was-larger\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:41:00","slug":"i-would-have-figured-that-the-number-was-larger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/01\/i-would-have-figured-that-the-number-was-larger\/","title":{"rendered":"I Would Have Figured That the Number Was Larger\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study is now rep[ortint that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/01\/29\/report-americans-got-billion-robocalls-last-year-up-percent\/\">Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls last year<\/a>, a nearly 50% increase from the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>If I do a quick back of the envelope calculation, that is about 100 robocalls per phone per year, or about 1 every 3-\u00bd days.<\/p>\n<p>I typically get 2-3 a day on weekdays, so I think that the number is way too small.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it is getting to the point that people are no longer answering their phones at all, so something that needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>I have a 7 word suggestion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The Most Popular Drone Strike Program Ever!<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study is now rep[ortint that Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls last year, a nearly 50% increase from the prior year. If I do a quick back of the envelope calculation, that is about 100 robocalls per phone per year, or about 1 every 3-\u00bd days. I typically get 2-3 a day on weekdays, so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,364,396],"class_list":["post-178234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-evil","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}