{"id":1194,"date":"2010-09-21T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:08:29","slug":"gift-card-value-proposition-in-graphic-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Gift card value proposition in graphic form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is nice when someone takes a concept and creates a new way of understanding it, which is what Mint.com has done with gift cards in their Mintlife blog.\u00a0 We often buy gift cards because they are convenient and we aren&#8217;t aware of all the potential pitfalls, which have understandably gotten fewer over the last several years, but pitfalls do still exist.\u00a0 Read this in full and see if you still want to buy a gift card for someone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GiftCardMinefield1_cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1195\" title=\"GiftCardMinefield1_cut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GiftCardMinefield1_cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GiftCardMinefield1_cut.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GiftCardMinefield1_cut-157x300.jpg 157w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GiftCardMinefield1_cut-537x1024.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/blog\/saving\/gift-cards-09212010\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is nice when someone takes a concept and creates a new way of understanding it, which is what Mint.com has done with gift cards in their Mintlife blog.\u00a0 We often buy gift cards because they are convenient and we aren&#8217;t aware of all the potential pitfalls, which have understandably gotten fewer over the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}