{"id":899,"date":"2016-08-30T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2016-08-30T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:59:34","slug":"the-madness-that-is-118-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"The Madness that is 118 118"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid it cost 10p to use a BT phone box and there were not mobile phones, if you needed directory enquirers to find a number you didn&#8217;t need to take out a mortgage to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Today since the privatization there are now several companies offering this service. the most prevalent on TV is 118 118, I can&#8217;t for the life of me in this digital age understand how anyone still uses this service. If you need a number you are just a quick Google query away from getting the numbers you need for nothing, yet these companies are still in business so people must be using them&#8230;&#8230; It is beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>The costs are : <span class=\"_Tgc\">&#8220;Calls to 118 118 cost \u00a31.88 per call plus <b>\u00a32.57 per minute<\/b> (minimum 60 second charge) from most landlines.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think instead of two idiots in the TV advert they should probably have someone dressed up as Dick Turpin and make it more realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Why anyone would use this service now when you can get any number on line for free, it just boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>Bunch of con artists just like the payday lenders, they should all be forced to close their doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid it cost 10p to use a BT phone box and there were not mobile phones, if you needed directory enquirers to find a number you didn&#8217;t need to take out a mortgage to do so. Today since the privatization there are now several companies offering this service. the most prevalent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}