{"id":5927,"date":"2013-02-08T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2013-02-08T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:41:23","slug":"my-pet-smart-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5927","title":{"rendered":"My Pet Smart Card."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, my wife issued me a Pet Smart Pet Perks card.\u00a0 And, she instructed me to use it every time I shopped there.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking that the card entitled me to some sort of discount, and, since I always do what my wife tells me to do, I gladly presented my card for every Pet Smart purchase.\u00a0 But, the other day when I was shopping at Pet Smart, I noticed that their kitty litter was a dollar more than Meijer (regional grocery chain).\u00a0 But, since I would be using my Pet Perk card, I was sure that I would get a discount.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I checked out, I discovered that the price was still the same regardless of my card.\u00a0 So, this prompted me to ask the clerk about the card.\u00a0 She said that the card keeps track of my purchases and emails me when something that I normally buy is on sale.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it??\u00a0 I have been using that stupid card for 10 years just so Pet Smart can send me spam?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0 I suspect that my Pet Smart card is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, my wife issued me a Pet Smart Pet Perks card.\u00a0 And, she instructed me to use it every time I shopped there. Thinking that the card entitled me to some sort of discount, and, since I always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5927\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}