{"id":83,"date":"2011-07-19T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-10-20T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T12:01:37","slug":"pissing-moaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Pissing &#038; Moaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called &#8211; and that on the few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>The phone didn&#8217;t ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring.<\/p>\n<p>Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The dog was tied to the telephone system&#8217;s ground wire with a American stainless steel chain and collar.<\/li>\n<li>The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.<\/li>\n<li>The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.<\/li>\n<li>After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.<\/li>\n<li>The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called &#8211; and that on the few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=83\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}