{"id":5170,"date":"2002-10-15T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/xxx-xxx-xxxx\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:14","slug":"xxx-xxx-xxxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/xxx-xxx-xxxx\/","title":{"rendered":"XXX-XXX-XXXX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the whole world needs to use 10-digit dialing. The 248 area code almost got it right, as you need full the full 10 digits for local calls, but you still need to dial a 1 for inter-lata and interstate long distance. Why can&#8217;t the phone companies just tell people to suck it up and use full 10-digit dialing (without a +1, ever) for all calls everywhere? Just like cell phones, it&#8217;d work great. The only reason I can think of is that then people won&#8217;t know precisely if a call is long distance or not, but I&#8217;m sure an automated &#8220;Enter the number you want to call and we&#8217;ll tell you the rate&#8221; service could be set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the whole world needs to use 10-digit dialing. The 248 area code almost got it right, as you need full the full 10 digits for local calls, but you still need to dial a 1 for inter-lata and interstate long distance. Why can&#8217;t the phone companies just tell people to suck it up\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16461,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/16461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}