{"id":10,"date":"2003-12-25T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=10"},"modified":"2012-11-16T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:51:54","slug":"finally-a-good-ringtone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/12\/25\/finally-a-good-ringtone\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a good ringtone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s <i>San Jos&eacute; Mercury News<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the Web site of the ring tone company Modtones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modtones.com\" class=\"unemphasized\">www.modtones.com<\/a>), you can dress your cell phone up for the holidays by downloading &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221; Or if you prefer, you can simply download silence.<\/p>\n<p>Customers started asking for a silent ring tone a while back, said Jeremy Xavier, the marketing manager of Modtones, although at first he did not understand this oxymoronic request.  When he did, he set his developers to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The user simply assigns the silent tone to any numbers in the cell phone&#8217;s address book.  It seems to callers at those numbers that the cell phone is ringing, but the call is sent to voice mail.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier said the un-tone has been getting &#8220;a pretty significant amount of downloads.&#8221; He declined to specify how many, but said it was beating out certain popular music.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s San Jos&eacute; Mercury News: At the Web site of the ring tone company Modtones (www.modtones.com), you can dress your cell phone up for the holidays by downloading &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221; Or if you prefer, you can simply download silence. Customers started asking for a silent ring tone a while back, said Jeremy Xavier, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}