{"id":495,"date":"2006-10-25T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2006\/10\/25\/you-have-already-won\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T17:00:27","slug":"you-have-already-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2006\/10\/you-have-already-won\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You have already won!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting yet another letter from the Awards Verification Center in Arlington (a front for Silverleaf Resorts), I was toying with the idea of calling them up to try to claim the &#8216;prize&#8217; and blogging about the whole process.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clowncarblog.com\/archives\/000611.html\">But it has already been done<\/a>. But I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/eb\/Orders\/2002\/EB-02-TC-256.pdf\">don&#8217;t feel bad<\/a> for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallas.bbb.org\/commonreport.html?compid=8000090&amp;code=\">particular organization<\/a>. Further googling turned up the grand-prize winner in guys dealing with scum like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fighttelemarketing.com\/\">Put an End to Telemarketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has turned his battle against the autodiallers into cold, hard cash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting yet another letter from the Awards Verification Center in Arlington (a front for Silverleaf Resorts), I was toying with the idea of calling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-7Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}