{"id":7152,"date":"2010-03-21T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:25:41","slug":"grifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7152","title":{"rendered":"Grifter cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bowery bellhop told me to take one of their cars instead of the taxi cab sitting out front and he said the familiar refrain, &#8220;It&#8217;s cheaper.&#8221; But when we got to the airport the guy tried to jack up the amount by $10 and I said no way. I offered to call the hotel to verify the amount but he bitterly took what I gave him.<\/p>\n<p>This is about the third time this has happened to me when the legitimate hotel has convinced me the car is better, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s more expensive and they&#8217;re mostly grifters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bowery bellhop told me to take one of their cars instead of the taxi cab sitting out front and he said the familiar refrain, &#8220;It&#8217;s cheaper.&#8221; But when we got to the airport the guy tried to jack up the amount by $10 and I said no way. I offered to call the hotel to verify the amount but he bitterly took what I gave him. This is about the third time this has&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-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1kHSD-grifter","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}