{"id":227,"date":"2009-02-21T22:02:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=227"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:15:05","slug":"whos-idea-was-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Idea Was This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icravefreebies.com\/2009\/02\/19\/free-2-gift-card-to-subway-sub-shops-ca-only\/\">settlement agreement<\/a>, Subway is giving away 142,500 $2 gift cards. Really, TWO DOLLARS? Seems Subway is smart in the ways of gift cards and knows people have little reason to carry a card around with that little on it on the off chance they might be passing a Subway. And if someone does use the card, they are bound to buy more than $2 worth of goods. Nice move Subway!<\/p>\n<p>And from the most obscure thing to buy a gift card for, Michigan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-ap-mi-huntinglicenses,0,3809355.story\">now sells gift cards<\/a> for hunting licenses. However, you can&#8217;t use them in places that actually sell licenses, only online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a\u00a0settlement agreement, Subway is giving away 142,500 $2 gift cards. Really, TWO DOLLARS? Seems Subway is smart in the ways of gift cards and knows people have little reason to carry a card around with that little on it on the off chance they might be passing a Subway. And if someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}