{"id":747,"date":"2005-01-30T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/30\/not-sure-whether-to-be-discouraged-or-amused\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:17","slug":"not-sure-whether-to-be-discouraged-or-amused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/30\/not-sure-whether-to-be-discouraged-or-amused\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Sure Whether To Be Discouraged Or Amused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this is a rapidly growing problem.  Although it doesn&#8217;t actually put one at risk of death, such behavior can imperil a person in other ways. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drunk dialing has grown so rampant now that, just as abuses of cellphones prompted a new code of ethics for public conversations and new laws for road travel, it has elicited various tips and cures. A Web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/slackertown.com\/\">SlackerTown.com<\/a> offers a phone number that people can call to leave their drunk-dialed message, which is recorded and placed on the Web for everyone&#8217;s listening pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Carol Lee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/30\/opinion\/30sun3.html?oref=login&#038;th\">The New Social Etiquette: Friends Don&#8217;t Let Friends Dial Drunk<\/a>, <cite>The New York Times<\/cite> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose this is preferable to calling one&#8217;s boss at 3 a.m. to tell her what you think of her management style, but really, wouldn&#8217;t <em>not over-imbibing<\/em> be a better solution?<\/p>\n<p>Humans.  [shakes head]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this is a rapidly growing problem. Although it doesn&#8217;t actually put one at risk of death, such behavior can imperil a person in other ways. Drunk dialing has grown so rampant now that, just as abuses of cellphones prompted a new code of ethics for public conversations and new laws for road travel, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12689,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/12689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}