{"id":233,"date":"2009-01-21T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-01-21T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:38:29","slug":"moving-to-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known for a long time that <a title=\"Calls over the Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a> is the way to go for direct calling.  Even knowing that, I have &#8211; for some unexplained reason &#8211; just kept paying monthly fees to Time Warner and now Verizon for unlimited calling services.  No more.<\/p>\n<p>Had a call with the ass-kicking offshore developers at <a title=\"Where others suck, they rule\" href=\"http:\/\/sakhatech.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sakha<\/a> this morning, and it was all via Skype.  Instant connections, crystal clear, and to INDIA.  While I was in it, decided to see just what it would cost to get all set up.  Turns out it&#8217;s pretty fair.  Like REALLY fair.  For unlimited national calling and an inbound phone number with voice mail it ends up being around $60 for a YEAR.  Compared to $50 a MONTH for Verizon, it ends up being a no brainer.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye landline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known for a long time that Skype is the way to go for direct calling. Even knowing that, I have &#8211; for some unexplained reason &#8211; just kept paying monthly fees to Time Warner and now Verizon for unlimited calling services. No more. Had a call with the ass-kicking offshore developers at Sakha this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}