{"id":15870,"date":"2020-03-10T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2020-07-06T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:25:25","slug":"national-landline-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/national-landline-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Landline Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay who here still uses a landline?\u00a0 Or remember the days of getting the extra long cord so can talk in your bedroom, and your parents couldn’t hear?<\/p>\n

This National Day deserved a small Sylum Snippet<\/p>\n

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“Is it in?” Nico snuck into the kitchen to watch the serviceman take out the old telegraph box and put in the new telephone.<\/p>\n

“You have no patience.”\u00a0 Thomas gave him a disapproving look.<\/p>\n

“I remember when the telegram was installed, the fact I could send messages out to others in hours was amazing. The very idea I could call Arthur one day, instead of waiting days sometimes months for a response.”<\/p>\n

“It is exciting.”\u00a0 Thomas had to agree.\u00a0 They had established a telegraph decades ago, and it felt like such an advance in technology, and now they were getting a phone.\u00a0 \u00a0A secondary phone was being put into the General Store in Vacherie, to be used by the local citizens.\u00a0 \u00a0“We can keep track of our Mates.”<\/p>\n

Nico snorted.\u00a0 “Well the downside is the Council will be able to yell at me quicker than sending a courier.”<\/p>\n

Thomas bit back the smirk.\u00a0 “Well at least things will not be boring.”<\/p>\n

“Are they ever?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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