{"id":430,"date":"2008-06-12T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T19:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/cellphone-plans-and-weather\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T19:38:54","slug":"cellphone-plans-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/430\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone Plans and Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s rant is about cell phone companies.  A couple of things I can&#8217;t stand about them:<\/p>\n<p>1) Commitments.  &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry sir, but you can&#8217;t shop at the other grocery store because you signed a two-year contract with us!&#8221;  Imagine if every business worked like this!  We wouldn&#8217;t take it.  But cell phone companies seem to make us unwillingly loyal.  Any company that makes me sign a contract to stay with them immediately loses my business once the contract is up.<\/p>\n<p>2) Bad customer service.  Hold for five minutes, then speak with someone who barely speaks your language?  I especially hate the myriad of menus that they make you speak through.<\/p>\n<p>3) Expensive services.  I&#8217;m cheap.  The lowest price plan I was able to find for Jill and I was over sixty dollars a month.  Ick.  What about some basic plans for the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more, but that will do for now.  I did find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumercellular.com\">this site<\/a> today, which professes to have cheap cell phone plans and services &#8211; we could cut our bill almost in half with them.  And no commitments!  Once my contract is up, I will seek them out post haste.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the weather has been very very hot lately.  Here&#8217;s a picture of a couple days ago:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/picture-4.jpg' alt='picture-4.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s rant is about cell phone companies. A couple of things I can&#8217;t stand about them: 1) Commitments. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry sir, but you can&#8217;t shop at the other grocery store because you signed a two-year contract with us!&#8221; Imagine if every business worked like this! We wouldn&#8217;t take it. But cell phone companies seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}