{"id":6934,"date":"2012-09-28T07:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:07:33","slug":"lucy-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/lucy-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Phone is a tool that has helped me deal with one of the annoyances of modern life: waiting on hold.\u00a0From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucyphone.com\/\">LucyPhone&#8217;s website<\/a>\u00a0you can look up the company or toll-free number you want to dial. LucyPhone acts like a conference call: it calls your phone and connects you to the company you wanted to dial.<\/p>\n<p>At any point in the call when you&#8217;re placed on hold, you tap ** (star star) and LucyPhone takes over. You can hang up, and LucyPhone will call you back once an operator has picked up on the other end.<\/p>\n<p>From the call operator&#8217;s perspective, once they take your call, they are played a brief message from LucyPhone while your number is being called. As soon as you pick up, you are connected to the operator.<\/p>\n<p>The recently reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/gethuman.com\/\">gethuman.com<\/a> now integrates LucyPhone into their site so that the process is truly seamless, and you don&#8217;t even have to initiate the call.<\/p>\n<p>The service is free for consumers. The only drawback I&#8217;ve noticed is that it only works for toll-free numbers, so you still have to do things the old fashioned way with companies with local only numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I find LucyPhone much less stressful and annoying than my previous technique of putting the held call on speakerphone and hoping I didn&#8217;t leave the room at just the moment I came out of the hold queue.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more hold music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}