{"id":363,"date":"2006-10-11T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/10\/um-hello-comcast-anyone-home\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:47:34","slug":"um-hello-comcast-anyone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/10\/11\/um-hello-comcast-anyone-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, hello? Comcast?  Anyone home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cable went out about an hour ago.  Minor irritation, really, since the internet is still up and I was just able to trick OnDemand into working.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s annoying is that their telephone customer service seems to be all about the unbelievably dead silence while waiting for a customer service agent, which is taking <i>forever<\/i>.  I&#8217;ve called in three times now.  The first time, I thought I&#8217;d been disconnected.  The second lasted about thirty minutes, and I decided to hang up.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe third I ended after five, because I didn&#8217;t want to hang on for another thirty.  And the silence was really starting to get to me.<\/p>\n<p>Note to Comcast: silence = bad.  I don&#8217;t like it from my cable, and I don&#8217;t want to hear it while I&#8217;m on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Also, think about getting National Geographic HD.  That might make up for the eerie silent hold.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d be a bit more upset about this if it weren&#8217;t for all the really nice things they&#8217;ve given me this year.  Here&#8217;s a list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TNT HD, just in time for Nightmares and Dreamscapes.  And the HD is also OnDemand.<\/li>\n<li>Free older episodes of NCIS OnDemand<\/li>\n<li>Starz and Encore HD OnDemand<\/li>\n<li>Somehow, magically, more room on my DVR for HD shows<\/li>\n<li>Free episodes of the new seasons of CSI [including Miami and NY], Numbers, and Jericho OnDemand, as soon as the next day after they&#8217;ve aired.<\/li>\n<li>Those free episodes I just mentioned?  The original CSI is also available for free in HD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All very much of the good.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cable went out about an hour ago. Minor irritation, really, since the internet is still up and I was just able to trick OnDemand into working. What&#8217;s annoying is that their telephone customer service seems to be all about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/10\/11\/um-hello-comcast-anyone-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-5R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}