Here’s a text message I just recieved from my Aussie mobile phone operator Optus:<\/p>\n
“To get a free ringtone, call 966 and select 9 after the greeting. Call costs 30c\/30secs, download charges apply, expires 30\/04\/07.”<\/p>\n
Now I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound entirely<\/i> free to me.<\/p>\n
Pat<\/p>\n
P.S. Hello! I’m back in Perth after a 5 day tour to Albany, Margaret River, Esperance and other places. It was ace! I’m off on the Broome tour on Saturday (not today as originally intended) so have 4 days here to relax and see the sights *<\/p>\n
* And spend about 10 hours blogging, photo uploading, catching up on emails and booking stuff…<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a text message I just recieved from my Aussie mobile phone operator Optus: “To get a free ringtone, call 966 and select 9 after the greeting. Call costs 30c\/30secs, download charges apply, expires 30\/04\/07.” Now I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound entirely free to me. Pat P.S. Hello! I’m back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-pats-thoughts","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}