{"id":6841,"date":"2025-11-26T05:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:31:38","slug":"the-2-a-m-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=6841","title":{"rendered":"The 2 A.M. Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A married couple was fast asleep when the phone suddenly rang at 2 in the morning. Startled and half-awake, the wife grabbed the phone from the nightstand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She listened for a few seconds, squinting in confusion. Then she snapped, \u201cHow should I know? That\u2019s 200 miles from here!\u201d and hung up without another word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her husband, still groggy, lifted his head from the pillow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho was that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wife shrugged. \u201cSome idiot asking if the coast was clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple was fast asleep when the phone suddenly rang at 2 in the morning. Startled and half-awake, the wife grabbed the phone from the nightstand&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}