{"id":7836,"date":"2014-04-18T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:01:49","slug":"friday-funnies-frantic-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2014\/04\/friday-funnies-frantic-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Funnies: Frantic calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back when radio stations still had DJs, one would occasionally get the frantic &#8220;We off the air&#8221; call:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing.png\" alt=\"weve-tried-nothing\" class=\"wp-image-7854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing.png 640w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/weve-tried-nothing-400x302.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays, the unemotional monotone computer-generated remote control voice says something like &#8220;Alarm, status channel 16, WXYZ silence&#8230;&#8221; or better still, the answering service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways, I miss the old days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when radio stations still had DJs, one would occasionally get the frantic &#8220;We off the air&#8221; call: Nowadays, the unemotional monotone computer-generated remote control voice says something like &#8220;Alarm, status channel 16, WXYZ silence&#8230;&#8221; or better still, the answering service. In some ways, I miss the old days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-funnies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11273,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/11273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}