{"id":103,"date":"2005-03-23T02:41:25","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-07-27T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:37:52","slug":"ask-a-blogger-why-i-love-free-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2005\/03\/23\/ask-a-blogger-why-i-love-free-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Blogger why I love free stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spying the Merch Alert! for a free &#8220;I love Bloglines&#8221; T-Shirt in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ask.com\/2005\/02\/welcome_bloglin.html\">post script<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ask.com\/\">Ask Jeeves<\/a> post of it&#8217;s purchase of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a>, I emailed away for some free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promosapien.ca\/Content\/What%20Is%20Schwag.asp\">schwag<\/a>.  Little did I know that I would be lucky to recieve said merchanidise, but lo and behold I too got an email from Paul Loeffler at Ask Jeeves like <a href=\"http:\/\/joseph.randomnetworks.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/14\/i-love-bloglines-shirt-in-the-mail\/\">many others<\/a> on the web have.  <\/p>\n<p>But I can confirm that I have indeed recieved the <a href=\"http:\/\/google.blognewschannel.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/22\/aint-that-great-timing\/\">t-shirt as well<\/a>.  Although, one wonders if only said 200 shirts were issued.  If it turns out as such, it&#8217;s kinda of like being in a secret group where no one knows your name.  \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n<p> I was amused that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ask.com\/\">Ask Jeeves<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a> itself have already been purchased in the amount of time this whole transaction took place.  Quite amusing.  And probably of little interest to anyone other than myself.  But I am a happy user of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a> and hope to remain so into the foreseeable future.  I guess that&#8217;s why this is all so engrossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spying the Merch Alert! for a free &#8220;I love Bloglines&#8221; T-Shirt in the post script of Ask Jeeves post of it&#8217;s purchase of Bloglines, I emailed away for some free schwag. Little did I know that I would be lucky to recieve said merchanidise, but lo and behold I too got an email from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,19,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-observations","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}