{"id":1606,"date":"2015-11-27T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:35:10","slug":"selling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/selling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought an Amazon Fire tablet today for the ridiculously low price of $34.99. That&#8217;s $15 less than their usual ridiculously low price.\u00a0Today&#8217;s special is not just a Black Friday &#8220;door buster&#8221; bargain. No, the additional $15 off is available to anyone who is willing to let Amazon place an ad on the\u00a0tablet in place of the lockscreen image. That&#8217;s right, I sold the lockscreen\u00a0on my tablet to Amazon, and invited them to use it to advertise to me so that I could save $15. I don&#8217;t know whether to feel like a smart shopper or a sell out. Actually I do, but I&#8217;d rather think of myself as a smart shopper.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1608\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/firelockscreenad.png\" alt=\"FireLockScreenAd\" width=\"1004\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/firelockscreenad.png 1004w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/firelockscreenad-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/firelockscreenad-768x347.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought an Amazon Fire tablet today for the ridiculously low price of $34.99. That&#8217;s $15 less than their usual ridiculously low price.\u00a0Today&#8217;s special is not just a Black Friday &#8220;door buster&#8221; bargain. No, the additional $15 off is available to anyone who is willing to let Amazon place an ad on the\u00a0tablet in place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/selling-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Selling Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-ethics","category-media-industry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}