{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-04T22:41:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:11:51","slug":"gift-cards-and-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/gift-cards-and-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift cards and politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Nelson let me know about a piece of annoying marketing he received. It was a gift card, that if used, would enroll him in a fraud protection service for his credit card (and cost him $8 a month). I just received the same thing today. I only opened it because I&#8217;m expecting a cash-back check soon. Fortunately, if the company stays true to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/idiot-marketing-credit-cards\/\">its word<\/a>,\u00a0this silliness should stop by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m glad the most recent election is over, because my mailbox has been stuffed with a bunch political junk over the past few weeks. I&#8217;m not even registered with a party. If I did have to register for a party, I&#8217;d join the birthday party. Those are usually fun, except for the awkward singing part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Nelson let me know about a piece of annoying marketing he received. It was a gift card, that if used, would enroll him in a fraud protection service for his credit card (and cost him $8 a month). I just received the same thing today. I only opened it because I&#8217;m expecting a cash-back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/gift-cards-and-politicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gift cards and politicians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoying-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}