{"id":1729,"date":"2006-05-15T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2006-05-15T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T21:25:00","slug":"skype-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"skype account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">skype<\/a> number so that while I&#8217;m overseas, people won&#8217;t need to pay out the nose to get in touch with me.  It&#8217;s even based in the chicago area.  Heh.  Cool.  <\/p>\n<p>Any other skype users out there?<\/p>\n<p>For those not in the know, skype is a phone-over-internet (voice over ip, or VOIP) service, so that one can call people anywhere for reasonable rates.  For instance.  Calling the UK on my cell is like $1+\/minute.  Calling the UK on skype, to a land line, is $.021\/minute.  Ditto for Scott in Germany.  Now, cells can be more expensive to reach, as I found out the hard way.  Dialing Ro&#8217;s cell # cost $.76 cents for 3 minutes.  Still better than calling from my cell.  <\/p>\n<p>And if anyone I were calling used skype, it would be free.  <\/p>\n<p>You prepay, so it&#8217;s like a calling card that way.  You can also buy numbers (for $12 for 3 months or $38 for a year) that forward to your client, or to a voicemail service, which you can, of course, access from anywhere online.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they&#8217;re having a promo where it&#8217;s free to call the US and Canada until the end of the year.  Sweet.  <\/p>\n<p>send me an email if you want the geeky new #.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a skype number so that while I&#8217;m overseas, people won&#8217;t need to pay out the nose to get in touch with me. It&#8217;s even based in the chicago area. Heh. Cool. Any other skype users out there? For those not in the know, skype is a phone-over-internet (voice over ip, or VOIP) service, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;skype account&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}