{"id":442,"date":"2006-12-14T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/12\/14\/gift-certificates\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:57:17","slug":"gift-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/gift-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read somewhere recently that gift certificates are bad gifts.&nbsp; I agree if you get a gift certificate to some place you don&#8217;t care about (like&nbsp;to Starbucks or the iTunes store).&nbsp; But I like giving and getting Amazon gift certificates, as you can find pretty much anything there.&nbsp; And Amazon doesn&#8217;t play games like short expiration dates or not letting you use the difference.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I have an Amazon Associates account on which I earn about $20\/year, which I then spend on books for myself or Kelli.&nbsp; They just made it so that I can earn a 6% commission on gift certificates if you use the link below.&nbsp; So&#8230;if you were going to buy an Amazon gift certificate anyway, you might as well use this link to do it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re offended that I would dare make a profit off of you, my dear friend, then I apologize.&nbsp; I would note that since the cost of the gift certificate is the same, the only difference is whether I get the 6% or Amazon headquarters does.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re still offended, you&#8217;re welcome to tell me so below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=bibleplaces-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=42&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=gift_certificates&amp;banner=1M960QV3N0X8VNPYXT02&amp;f=ifr\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"234\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"60\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00067L6TQ\/ref=nosim\/?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;tag=bibleplaces-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon Gift Certificate<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=bibleplaces-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This is good only through <del>Dec. 31, 2006<\/del>&nbsp; March 31, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read somewhere recently that gift certificates are bad gifts.&nbsp; I agree if you get a gift certificate to some place you don&#8217;t care about (like&nbsp;to Starbucks or the iTunes store).&nbsp; But I like giving and getting Amazon gift certificates, as you can find pretty much anything there.&nbsp; And Amazon doesn&#8217;t play games like short\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/gift-certificates\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}