{"id":761,"date":"2007-05-22T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/761"},"modified":"2007-05-22T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:24:36","slug":"it-was-hard-to-breath-and-the-roaming-charges-were-killing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/761","title":{"rendered":"It Was Hard To Breath And The Roaming Charges Were Killing Me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well this was a first I could have lived contentedly without ever knowing about…<\/p>\n

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No escape as mobile phone reaches Everest’s summit <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A British man has set a world record by making the first mobile telephone call from the summit of Mount Everest, taking the blessing — or curse — of the cell phone to new heights.<\/p>\n

"It’s cold, it’s fantastic, the Himalayas are everywhere," Rod Baber said in the phone call from the top of the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) peak…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No Shit?<\/em>  The Himalayas, did you say?  And…like…is there snow everywhere up there too?  Is it really high up there? <\/p>\n

See?  He’s on the fucking summit of Mount Everest, and you have to think that the thoughts in his head at that moment were actually some pretty profound ones.  That is a rare and dangerous adventure.  And he goes on that adventure…and he reaches the top.  He did it.  And the reward is a view of planet earth that few humans have ever seen with their own eyes.  But then he puts the goddamned cell phone to his face and all the comes out is shopping mall babble.  Cell phones just bring out the chattering little monkeys in all of us.  I’m not busting on them…I’d hate to live in a world without them.  But there will never be famous memorable words spoken into a cell phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well this was a first I could have lived contentedly without ever knowing about… No escape as mobile phone reaches Everest’s summit A British man has set a world record by making the first mobile telephone call from the summit of Mount Everest, taking the blessing — or curse — of the cell phone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}