{"id":231,"date":"2009-02-23T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:13:34","slug":"a-proper-use-for-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"A Proper Use for Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to give it to AMEX to show us how it is done. They are offering select card holders (read, risky card holders) a $300 gift card if they fully pay off their account. Once they receive their gift card their account will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Behold the proper use of the carrot methodology. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albuquerque\/stories\/2009\/02\/23\/daily8.html\">article<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to give it to AMEX to show us how it is done. They are offering select card holders (read, risky card holders) a $300 gift card if they fully pay off their account. Once they receive their gift card their account will be closed. Behold the proper use of the carrot methodology. (article)<\/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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}