{"id":408,"date":"2006-06-16T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-06-16T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T02:51:59","slug":"finally-a-ringtone-for-teens-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/06\/16\/finally-a-ringtone-for-teens-and-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a ringtone for teens and dogs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You get your just deserts.  Invent a device and call it the \u201cMosquito Teen Repeller\u201d, and teens will turn around and find a way to use it against you.  In this case, they turned the high-pitched noise into an mp3 and set it as their ringtone, one that they can hear and most adults can\u2019t.  Build a wall to stop teens from doing something, they\u2019ll build a ladder, a bridge, some dynamite, and then turn the wall into a skatepark.  It\u2019s too bad we aren\u2019t better able to harness all of that inventive energy.  Still, I don\u2019t see it becoming too predominant, because if you CAN hear the ringtone, it\u2019s a really annoying sound.  (<a title=\"teenbuzz\" href=\"http:\/\/download.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/atc\/atc_teenbuzz.mp3\">see if you can hear it<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>At least I know I\u2019m not old.  Yet.<\/p>\n<p>(<a title=\"NPR News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5483203\">via NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You get your just deserts. Invent a device and call it the \u201cMosquito Teen Repeller\u201d, and teens will turn around and find a way to use it against you. In this case, they turned the high-pitched noise into an mp3 and set it as their ringtone, one that they can hear and most adults can\u2019t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}