{"id":3221,"date":"2010-01-05T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/directv-rate-increase\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:34:04","slug":"directv-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/directv-rate-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Rate Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I received an email advising me that the <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> rates were going to increase next month. I guess that times being what they are, that I&#8217;m OK with the new rate. However, when I clicked on the link to see the new rates, they sent me to this <em>helpful and informative document<\/em> (tongue-in-cheek, of course):<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dtv-rates.jpg' title='dtv-rates.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dtv-rates.thumbnail.jpg' alt='illegible' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> . . . how about posting a <strong>readable<\/strong> rate chart showing old vs. new rates and something to indicate which package applies to me?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if <strong>Dish&reg; Network<\/strong> does the same crap.<\/p>\n<p>Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I received an email advising me that the DirecTV rates were going to increase next month. I guess that times being what they are,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}