{"id":9731,"date":"2026-09-17T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:31:19","slug":"temporary-telephone-service-disruption-friday-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/issue\/no-issue\/temporary-telephone-service-disruption-friday-september-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Telephone Service Disruption \u2013 Friday, September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\"><em>September 17, 2026 &#8212;<\/em> PEF is transitioning to a new telephone system on Friday, September 18, beginning at approximately 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">During the transition, callers may experience brief interruptions when contacting PEF headquarters or regional offices. If you are unable to reach us by telephone, please use the <a title=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/contact\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/contact\/\">Contact Us form<\/a> on the PEF website. Staff will be monitoring and responding to messages submitted through the form during the transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we complete this upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2026 &#8212; PEF is transitioning to a new telephone system on Friday, September 18, beginning at approximately 11:30 a.m. During the transition, callers may experience brief interruptions when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"division":[],"allowed_regions":[],"allowed_divisions":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Temporary Telephone Service Disruption \u2013 Friday, September 18 - PEF Communicator<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/issue\/no-issue\/temporary-telephone-service-disruption-friday-september-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Temporary Telephone Service Disruption \u2013 Friday, September 18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"September 17, 2026 &#8212; 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