{"id":9027,"date":"2019-08-17T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:43:22","slug":"wow-utilities-can-be-a-pain-to-deal-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/17\/wow-utilities-can-be-a-pain-to-deal-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow utilities can be a pain to deal with."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contacted Cox Cable this morning to arrange for disconnect. I&rsquo;m glad I didn&rsquo;t do that earlier It would have bushed me over the edge a week ago, in terms of them not getting it right the first time. The&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, today it was an annoyance, nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>I told the Rep that the disconnect should be effective on Aug 19th<\/p>\n<p>10 minutes later my cable and internet are down. Great! Not what I asked for. At the point that this happened I was on the phone to SDG&amp;E (San Diego Gas &amp; Electric) arranging the disconnection of that service.<\/p>\n<p>No worries, the Rep at SDG&amp;E was pleasantly efficient and understood what I was doing. She scheduled things to be effective on the 20th. Perfect!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I call Cox Cable back. This time I got someone who had a brain. She fixed things, 1 hour later Internet and cable were back on. I want to keep the internet at least through the weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many things still to do, but this is wrapping up. I&rsquo;ll be ready for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&rsquo;m going to relax, get some sleep and just clear my head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contacted Cox Cable this morning to arrange for disconnect. I&rsquo;m glad I didn&rsquo;t do that earlier It would have bushed me over the edge a week ago, in terms of them not getting it right the first time. The&nbsp; However, today it was an annoyance, nothing more. I told the Rep that the disconnect should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/17\/wow-utilities-can-be-a-pain-to-deal-with\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow utilities can be a pain to deal with.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9028,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}