{"id":137,"date":"2003-11-10T00:07:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T08:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2003-11-10T00:07:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T08:07:42","slug":"ebay-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/ebay-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing eBay and found <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=2765106653&#038;category=171\">this listing<\/a>.  The product?  A $20 gift certificate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> music store.  The starting price?   $20.  Now, why in the world would I spend $20, which I could use to buy anything (including iTunes songs) on a gift certificate I could only use for iTunes songs?  Oh wait&#8230; it gets better.  An actual quote further down in the listing:<\/p>\n<p><i>There is a $1.00 charge to transfer the certificate to you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Amazing.  Where do I sign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing eBay and found this listing. The product? A $20 gift certificate to the iTunes music store. The starting price? $20. Now, why in the world would I spend $20, which I could use to buy anything (including iTunes songs) on a gift certificate I could only use for iTunes songs? Oh wait&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}