{"id":198230,"date":"2007-11-29T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/29\/mental-health-outsourcing\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T04:20:00","slug":"mental-health-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/29\/mental-health-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on Stellar Parthenon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">I was feeling depressed last week, so I called the mental health help line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Like all other call centers, it has been outsourced to a third world location<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">When I told the operator in Pakistan that I was feeling suicidal, he <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">got very excited and wanted to know if I could drive a truck or fly a plane.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">rimshot<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on Stellar Parthenon: I was feeling depressed last week, so I called the mental health help line. Like all other call centers, it has been outsourced to a third world location. When I told the operator in Pakistan that I was feeling suicidal, he got very excited and wanted to know if I could &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198230"}],"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=198230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}