{"id":8257,"date":"2004-03-19T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2004-03-19T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T13:53:05","slug":"get-paid-not-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8257","title":{"rendered":"Get Paid Not To Read!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently subscribed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\">Salon<\/a>, and though I realize the sun is setting on that little rag, I did it because I like <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/topics\/joe_conason\/index.html\">Joe Conason<\/a> and because <a href=\"https:\/\/sub.salon.com\/registration\/\">Arianna Huffington<\/a> told me to do it.<\/p>\n<p> As part of my $30\/yr subscription I get a few free goodies, including a subscription to the decidly conservative and boring US News and World Report. I was pleasantly surprised when they sent me a reverse-invoice offering to unsubscribe me and pay me $20! Naturally I took them up on their offer. I&#8217;m thinking about not subscribing to the The Weekly Standard, the National Review, and American Spectator next. Sort of reminds me of farm subsidies for intellectuals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently subscribed to Salon, and though I realize the sun is setting on that little rag, I did it because I like Joe Conason and because Arianna Huffington told me to do it. As part of my $30\/yr subscription I get a few free goodies, including a subscription to the decidly conservative and boring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get Paid Not To Read!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}