{"id":4975,"date":"2009-12-02T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:38:00","slug":"talk-about-instant-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/talk-about-instant-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Instant Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received two <i>Forbes<\/i> subscription renewals in the mail the other day.  The same day.  With a $40 difference in a six month subscription rate.<\/p>\n<p>First, a congratulations on my recent move and an offer to renew at $59.95 for 26 issues:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/forbes1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/forbes1.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"$60 for 26 issues.\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In another envelope, an offer to renew at $19.95 for 26 issues:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/forbes2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/forbes2.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"$20 for 26 issues.\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As you know, I take a larger number of magazines than I can read in a contemporary fashion.  And you know one of the factors that makes me decide which ones to let expire?<\/p>\n<p><i>How stupidly the circulation department treats you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Forbes<\/i> doesn&#8217;t rival <i>Fortune<\/i> and other Time-Warner magazines in trying to trick you.  Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received two Forbes subscription renewals in the mail the other day. The same day. With a $40 difference in a six month subscription rate. First, a congratulations on my recent move and an offer to renew at $59.95 for 26 issues: Click for full size In another envelope, an offer to renew at $19.95 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}