{"id":734929,"date":"2010-05-27T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007139"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:21:32","slug":"telephone-company-cuts-off-greek-prime-ministers-phone-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/734929","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Company Cuts Off Greek Prime Minister&#8217;s Phone Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/santorini-thumb-240x180-40763.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>While his government wallows in massive debt, the Prime Minister of Greece has his own problem &#8212; the telephone company turned off service to his home phone earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it was all an error, as Prime Minister George Papandreou&#8217;s home phone number was nearly identical (all but one digit) to that of a delinquent customer whose service was to be disconnected\/<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as soon as the phone company, which is 20% owned by the Greek government, learned of their mistake they dispatched techs to fix the error. <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister should be glad he <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/texas-womans-house-demolished-by-mistake.html\" >doesn&#8217;t live on this street in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=10747155\" >Hello? Hello? Greek PM&#8217;s Phone Cut off by Mistake<\/a> [ABC News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While his government wallows in massive debt, the Prime Minister of Greece has his own problem &#8212; the telephone company turned off service to his home phone earlier this week. Turns out it was all an error, as Prime Minister George Papandreou&#8217;s home phone number was nearly identical (all but one digit) to that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}