{"id":3391,"date":"2013-02-10T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2013-02-10T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T17:28:01","slug":"comcast-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/comcast-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/comcast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3392\" alt=\"comcast\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/comcast.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/comcast.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/comcast-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I spent most of yesterday afternoon building a new entertainment center and hooking up the new TV we bought last weekend. \u00a0Everything was going smoothly until it came time to call Comcast to activate the new hi-def cable box and DVR. \u00a0Instead of activating that box, it somehow deactivated all of the other boxes in the house, so that all we could get was a message saying that &#8220;This channel will be available shortly&#8221; and giving the dreaded error message of S0a00.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think a quick call to Comcast would clear this up. \u00a0This was not to be, as I ended up speaking with &#8220;Becky&#8221;, a young Indian woman who did not seem to comprehend my problem or how to attempt to fix it. \u00a0Without trying anything to fix it, she scheduled a service appointment (which should be taking place later this afternoon) and bid me farewell.<\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied, I tried to chat online with the robot known as &#8220;Michael&#8221;, who at least claimed to attempt to send a signal to the boxes to remedy the problem. \u00a0Still no change, however, as the S0a00 message stared me in the face from all of the TVs in the house.<\/p>\n<p>The technician is scheduled to show up sometime between 1 and 3. \u00a0With the return of <em>Walking Dead<\/em> tonight, let&#8217;s hope it gets fixed and quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of yesterday afternoon building a new entertainment center and hooking up the new TV we bought last weekend. \u00a0Everything was going smoothly until it came time to call Comcast to activate the new hi-def cable box and DVR. \u00a0Instead of activating that box, it somehow deactivated all of the other boxes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2320,3010,1566],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-comcast","tag-s0a00","tag-the-walking-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}