{"id":78,"date":"2013-06-12T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=78"},"modified":"2018-02-09T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:55:33","slug":"2013612market-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Market Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So NEMS Market research thinks that the TPS (telephone preference service) does not apply to them as they are not sales, but &#8216;market research&#8217; \u2013 go figure<\/p>\n<p>If this invasion of the home telephone continues, then this device will go the way of the Dodo. <\/p>\n<p>I jealously guard my mobile number and do not give it to all. A call for sales or other such spam would be a grievous blow against me personally. I can see that coming, especially as spam text messages come in from time to time. No I have not been missold PPI and If I have had that accident in my car, it must have been a bad one, as I seem to have lost my memory of the tragic circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Technology allows these cold callers access to our lives. Me I can&#8217;t wait until autumn and the arrival of IOS 7 and the ability to block phone numbers from bothering my iPhone. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should bring back this punishment for the owners (not the hapless employees) of these firms?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Barrel-man.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[78]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Barrel-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"1140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Barrel-man.jpg 845w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Barrel-man-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A barrel of fun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So NEMS Market research thinks that the TPS (telephone preference service) does not apply to them as they are not sales, but &#8216;market research&#8217; \u2013 go figure If this invasion of the home telephone continues, then this device will go the way of the Dodo. I jealously guard my mobile number and do not give it to all. A call for sales or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}