{"id":47,"date":"2011-03-28T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:37:57","slug":"new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"New Phone…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Straight outta the 70's (click to embiggenify)<\/p><\/div>\n

While the original phone<\/a> I bought for this project is uber-cool, <\/strong>the fact remains that it’s not quite period appropriate to the time when Zork was at its peak (1977-1983). \u00c2\u00a0 So a little time wandering though the world’s biggest bazaar<\/a> showed me an alternative. \u00c2\u00a0It came labeled as “No Sound from ringer, works okay”<\/em> in grease pencil on the side. \u00c2\u00a0I didn’t care if it rings, since I’m going to gut it anyway, but it’s a little piece of the 70’s, and it’s ALL MINE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I started by doing what I do to almost anything that comes into the house, I opened it up and took it apart to see how it works…<\/p>\n

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… and then ripped the guts out.<\/p>\n

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Strangely, this \u00c2\u00a0also had a clear cover over the dial mechanism:<\/p>\n

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While the original phone I bought for this project is uber-cool, the fact remains that it’s not quite period appropriate to the time when Zork was at its peak (1977-1983). \u00c2\u00a0 So a little time wandering though the world’s biggest bazaar showed me an alternative. \u00c2\u00a0It came labeled as “No Sound from ringer, works okay” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone","category-wetwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}