{"id":1788,"date":"2012-11-17T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2012-11-17T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T09:07:05","slug":"within-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"Within reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night our office&#8217;s contact centre hosted telephone donation calls for\u00a0 BBC Children in Need, as well as running a host of fund raising activities.\u00a0 It was a busy old day, which could have gone either way, especially when we discovered that there were no winning tickets at all in the bucket for the tombola.\u00a0 The excitement on the phone desks was pretty full on, we all whooped and cheered when the first call had been taken.\u00a0 It was frankly a bit of a time warp as we sat with colleagues from long past, working together just like twenty years ago.\u00a0 My first caller was a gem, spoke very clearly, used the phonetic alphabet and laughed when I got my fingers in a knot.\u00a0 I am sitting below with Suzanne, although my Pudsey ears are just for show as you could not wear those things with a headset.\u00a0 Well, you could if you wanted a self induced migraine.\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook was plastered with pictures of us all, have to crave your indulgence there for the number of likes which will be on your page this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/c131.0.403.403\/p403x403\/69421_466203606764913_549390371_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ready to roll for children in need\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night our office&#8217;s contact centre hosted telephone donation calls for\u00a0 BBC Children in Need, as well as running a host of fund raising activities.\u00a0 It was a busy old day, which could have gone either way, especially when we discovered that there were no winning tickets at all in the bucket for the tombola.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-kirsty","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}