{"id":409,"date":"2009-09-10T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2009-09-10T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T10:57:00","slug":"avoiding-the-voicemail-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"avoiding the voicemail prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this <a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/29\/how-to-bypass-stupid-voicemail-instructions\/\">article<\/a> from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It turns out that each carrier offers a \u201cbypass the instructions\u201d keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person\u2019s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.)<\/p>\n<p>To be as evil as possible, the carriers do not promote or tell you about the existence of this keystroke. Furthermore, the key to press is different with each company:<\/p>\n<p>* for Verizon<\/p>\n<p>1 for Sprint<\/p>\n<p># for AT&amp;T<\/p>\n<p># for T-Mobile<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings: It turns out that each carrier offers a \u201cbypass the instructions\u201d keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person\u2019s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.) To be as evil as &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=409\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">avoiding the voicemail prompts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}