{"id":6341,"date":"2018-10-03T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:53:46","slug":"october-3rd-2018-where-were-you-when-your-phone-spoke-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/10\/03\/october-3rd-2018-where-were-you-when-your-phone-spoke-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"October 3rd, 2018: Where were YOU when your phone spoke to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at 2:18pm EDT (happened at 2:19pm for me), there was a rare test that happened on all cell phones (even on mine).<br \/>\nThe message was;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">EMERGENCY ALERTS<br \/>\n<strong>Presidential Alert<\/strong><br \/>\nTHIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless<br \/>\nEmergency Alert System. No<br \/>\naction is needed.<\/p>\n<p>(This also came with the familiar alert tone that you typically hear on a TV, or a radio)<\/p>\n<p>The test was conducted by FEMA (<em>not<\/em> the President himself), as a new way to (just incase) warn of a large-scale threat heading to America (such as a chemical attack, a nuke, or even a zombie invasion). It also has typical weather alerts that affect life and property (like a Tornado Warning).<br \/>\nAnd of course, Twitter (and other social media platform users) are tearing it apart and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PresidentialAlert?src=tren&amp;data_id=tweet%3A1047558717716160512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turning it into memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at 2:18pm EDT (happened at 2:19pm for me), there was a rare test that happened on all cell phones (even on mine). The message was; EMERGENCY ALERTS Presidential Alert THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/10\/03\/october-3rd-2018-where-were-you-when-your-phone-spoke-to-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}