{"id":19970,"date":"2006-07-13T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:55:31","slug":"damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/07\/13\/damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm damages Bates phone system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Tuesday, July 11, a lightning strike damaged several parts of the Bates College telephone system, including the link that connects the telephone system to the voice mail system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While our telecommunications staff works with our vendors to diagnose and fix the problems, please follow these interim instructions to leave voice mail for Bates people:<\/p>\n<p>If your party does not answer, your call is forwarded to the voice mail system. You may leave a message for your party by entering the star key (*) and the last four digits of the Bates phone number. You may do this any time after the recording says, &#8220;Thank you . . .&#8221; If you stay on the line, these instructions will be repeated for you.<\/p>\n<p>Bates phone numbers are available on the Bates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/search-directory.xml\">online directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We regret the inconvenience. We will restore normal voice mail services as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, July 11, a lightning strike damaged several parts of the Bates College telephone system, including the link that connects the telephone system to the voice mail system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92999,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions\/92999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}