{"id":596,"date":"2009-03-22T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-03-22T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T21:04:21","slug":"verizon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/verizon-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon: update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Verizon, beloved trusty vendor, with your fab customer support, (aHEM, that&#8217;s sarcasm, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/snark-v-lark-verizon-v-the-ring\/\">here<\/a>), when I wrote for the new set-top box, and I asked &#8220;so EVERYTHING I need is in the box?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;member?<\/p>\n<p>And member how you were all &#8220;MMM hmm, yup, it&#8217;s all in the box and it&#8217;s super easy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And I was dubious, <a href=\"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/snark-v-lark-verizon-v-the-ring\/\">having dealt with you before<\/a> and you took that opportunity to tell me a parable about how everything in the world could seem complicated but in verizon-land, life is great, the sun shines all day and night, and high-speed everything sails through the air straight into happy customers&#8217; hearts?<\/p>\n<p>Remember???<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m just saying, by EVERYthing in the box, I meant INCLUDING the &#8220;additional coaxial cable&#8221; page one of your instructions tipped me off to needing. <\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to  learning what else is not included.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksluvyabye. <\/p>\n<p>Harumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Verizon, beloved trusty vendor, with your fab customer support, (aHEM, that&#8217;s sarcasm, see: here), when I wrote for the new set-top box, and I asked &#8220;so EVERYTHING I need is in the box?&#8221; &#8216;member? And member how you were all &#8220;MMM hmm, yup, it&#8217;s all in the box and it&#8217;s super easy.&#8221; And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,766],"tags":[1149,1145,1026,1146,996,1148,1147,1023],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonus-material","category-wash","tag-argggh","tag-cable","tag-customer-service","tag-fios","tag-frustration","tag-instructions","tag-missing-wires","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}