{"id":463,"date":"2007-01-11T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/01\/11\/before-you-sign-up\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:55:27","slug":"before-you-sign-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/before-you-sign-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Before you sign up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for NetZero, AOL, Real, ESPN, or any other online service, you should read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/printable\/article\/id,128206\/printable.html\">PC World article<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s rather distressing what some services will do to keep you from canceling.&nbsp; I mention this article especially because I know that many readers of this blog are stingy, tight-fisted cheapskates and they may not realize that sometimes you pay more for &#8220;free&#8221; than for an honest service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for NetZero, AOL, Real, ESPN, or any other online service, you should read this PC World article.&nbsp; It&#8217;s rather distressing what some services will do to keep you from canceling.&nbsp; I mention this article especially because I know that many readers of this blog are stingy, tight-fisted cheapskates and they may not realize that sometimes\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/before-you-sign-up\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}