{"id":11545,"date":"2011-03-10T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11545"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:34:41","slug":"the-loyalty-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=11545","title":{"rendered":"The loyalty program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it seems all good things must come to an end or at least that is the theme playing out in my head right now. My laptop died and I had to get a new one. My airport router died and I had to get a new one. My external hard disk drive died and I had to get a new one. Yesterday my printer died and I had to get a new one. I believe I&#8217;ll call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this was my year to not purchase one thing and I have had to purchase that many things &#8211; I&#8217;m spent out on consumer electronics. The good news today was that Hewlett Packard gave me a substantial discount because I&#8217;ve been a loyal customer for over two decades. They gave me a printer that normally sells for $150 at $79 with free shipping, free ink, and an extended warranty for only $1. Can&#8217;t beat it with a stick. This upgraded printer has separate color ink cartridges so it prints better photos and it also scans better &#8211; so now after a long delay I can finally go back to scanning the family photo &#8211; a project I started now two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it seems all good things must come to an end or at least that is the theme playing out in my head right now. My laptop died and I had to get a new one. My airport router died and I had to get a new one. My external hard disk drive died and I had to get a new one. Yesterday my printer died and I had to get a new one. I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-30d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11546,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions\/11546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}