{"id":2472,"date":"2013-04-18T03:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:59:25","slug":"truth-in-fine-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/truth-in-fine-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in fine print"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/8659902008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8118\/8659902008_7a6f7e2621.jpg\" alt=\"Truth in fine print\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hold on here. Unlimited mobile phone service for a tiny fraction of what I&#8217;m paying now? That sounds too good to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s take a closer look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/8659902404\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8107\/8659902404_5bbd87f50b_n.jpg\" alt=\"There's the rub\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, there&#8217;s the rub. That&#8217;s the price for <em>seven days<\/em> of phone service. (Because who needs a phone longer than a week, right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$13.99 per week is what us normal people call &#8220;$60 per month.&#8221; Suddenly that amazing deal doesn&#8217;t sound so amazing, does it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<br><em>(Spotted at the dollar store at Mission and 17th.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on here. Unlimited mobile phone service for a tiny fraction of what I&#8217;m paying now? That sounds too good to be true. Let&#8217;s take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Truth in fine print - MrEricSir.com","description":"Hold on here. Unlimited mobile phone service for a tiny fraction of what I'm paying now? That sounds too good to be true. Let's take a closer look. Ah, there's"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,913,38,914],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-advertising","tag-dishonesty","tag-photos","tag-redpocketmobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}