{"id":581849,"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.media\/index\/581849","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Company Cuts Off Greek Prime Minister&#8217;s Phone Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/santorini-thumb-240x180-40763.jpg\">         <\/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":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}