{"id":29059,"date":"2019-05-17T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:00:49","slug":"robocall-is-not-a-bad-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29059","title":{"rendered":"\"Robocall\" Is Not a Bad Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/fcc-commissioner-repeat-after-me-robocalls-is-not-a-1834827855?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark\">The numbers of robocalls<\/a> grew an estimated 325 percent in 2018 to 85 billion spam calls, 26.3 billion of which were in America. The FCC itself recently cited a study saying half of all calls made to American cell phones this year will be spam. Put me on permanent silent mode, people.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, hold on, not so fast, says Republican FCC Commissioner Michael O\u2019Rielly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepeat after me,\u201d O\u2019Rielly said on Thursday. \u201c\u2018Robocall\u2019 is not a bad word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rielly spoke to an audience of debt collectors at ACA International. Debt collectors are one of the country\u2019s most zealous users of robocalls, a tool they deploy to hound people in debt about their bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WTF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers of robocalls grew an estimated 325 percent in 2018 to 85 billion spam calls, 26.3 billion of which were in America. The FCC itself recently cited a study saying half of all calls made to American cell phones this year will be spam. Put me on permanent silent mode, people. Wait, hold on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29060,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}