{"id":164,"date":"2004-01-29T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2004-01-29T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T17:33:46","slug":"money-magazine-thinks-im-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/29\/money-magazine-thinks-im-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Money magazine thinks I&#039;m an idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressured into subscribing to some magazines to help my little brother with a fundraiser, I subscribed to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/best\/\">Money<\/a>.  With 3 issues remaining in my subscription, I get an issue with a paper jacket over it, reminding me I&#8217;m supposed to re-subscribe.  The jacket said &#8220;Warning: You&#8217;re about to lose Money.&#8221;  I thought that was at least somewhat clever, although probably wouldn&#8217;t call it funny.<\/p>\n<p>The real funny part is when I opened it up to see what the deal was for renewal.  My options were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1) 1 year subscription (13 issues) for $19.95 (save 61%)<br \/>\n2) 2 year subscription (26 issues) for $19.95 per year (save 61%)<br \/>\n3) 3 year subscription (39 issues) for $19.95 per year (save 61%)<\/p>\n<p>Any moron can see that each of these offers is exactly the same price per year, and it&#8217;s a joke that they&#8217;re even listing them out like this.  The really hilarious part is that they&#8217;ve highlighted the 3 year subscription, drawn an arrow to it, and written &#8220;Best Deal!&#8221; next to it.<\/p>\n<p>This is Money magazine we&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressured into subscribing to some magazines to help my little brother with a fundraiser, I subscribed to Money. With 3 issues remaining in my subscription, I get an issue with a paper jacket over it, reminding me I&#8217;m supposed to re-subscribe. The jacket said &#8220;Warning: You&#8217;re about to lose Money.&#8221; I thought that was at [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}