{"id":516,"date":"2010-01-10T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=516"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:16:33","slug":"electronic-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t quite made up my mind about electronic gift cards (e-gift cards?). Electronic only gift cards like one we recently received for Barnes &amp; Noble have been around for a while but have mostly been online only, but a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainebiz.biz\/news45630.html\">new offering by CashStar<\/a>, for stores such as Home Depot and CVS, allows for gift cards that can be printed out and taken to a store to use in person, as well as online. I like the idea of having an email trace of the gift card as it makes it less likely that I will lose it completely (such as I might lose an actual plastic gift card) but I am less likely to have a gift card with me when I visit a store if I have to print it out first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t quite made up my mind about electronic gift cards (e-gift cards?). Electronic only gift cards like one we recently received for Barnes &amp; Noble have been around for a while but have mostly been online only, but a\u00a0new offering by CashStar, for stores such as Home Depot and CVS, allows for gift cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}