{"id":4606,"date":"2006-03-10T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:55:14","slug":"today-in-history-to-my-delight-he-came-and-declared-that-he-had-heard-and-understood-what-i-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4606","title":{"rendered":"Today In History:  &#8220;To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, 1876 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historychannel.com\/tdih\/tdih.jsp?category=leadstory\">the first speech was transmitted across a telephone wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All together now:  &#8220;Mr. Watson, come here &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if you make a phone call today (or &#8211; I should say &#8211; WHEN you make a phone call today) &#8211; take a second to think of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell.<\/p>\n<p>I Googled the dude &#8211; and came across the relevant pages in his notebook for March 10, 1876.  See them below &#8211; pretty damn cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, 1876 &#8211; the first speech was transmitted across a telephone wire. All together now: &#8220;Mr. Watson, come here &#8230;&#8221; So if you make a phone call today (or &#8211; I should say &#8211; WHEN you make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179008,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/179008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}