{"id":481,"date":"2005-04-27T23:08:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2005-04-27T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T06:10:13","slug":"ive-never-gone-over-my-cell-phone-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve never gone over my cell phone minutes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNTIL NOW! I&#8217;ve never been close to my 250 measly minutes (plus 1000 nighttime minutes) but this month I spent enough time talking to my buddy Greg to go over 107 minutes. That&#8217;s a lot of flapping my gums about ham radio, and I haven&#8217;t even been on the radio that much lately. 107 minutes is $48.15 extra, which, according to friends who know families with teenagers, is NOTHING. I guess $200 to $300 monthly cell phone bills are normal for kids in the &#8216;burbs.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, going over $48.15 is pretty pathetic for a guy without a girlfriend, but it sure doesn&#8217;t match my old long distance bills. In Japan I&#8217;d pay about $200 per month for my phone including long distance and pay-per-minute local charges. But I did have a girlfriend for part of that time. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNTIL NOW! I&#8217;ve never been close to my 250 measly minutes (plus 1000 nighttime minutes) but this month I spent enough time talking to my buddy Greg to go over 107 minutes. That&#8217;s a lot of flapping my gums about ham radio, and I haven&#8217;t even been on the radio that much lately. 107 minutes is $48.15 extra, which, according to friends who know families with teenagers, is NOTHING. I guess $200 to $300 monthly cell phone bills are normal for kids in the &#8216;burbs. In any case, going over $48.15 is pretty pathetic for a guy without a girlfriend, but it sure doesn&#8217;t match my old long distance bills. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ve never gone over my cell phone minutes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}