{"id":1966,"date":"2015-07-06T01:38:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2015-06-22T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:44:44","slug":"free-service-means-no-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/07\/free-service-means-no-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Service Means No Refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google and others give me free services. That means I get no refund if they fail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if I woke tomorrow and Google had lost everything I ever did? All my gmails are gone; all my Google Docs are gone, and everything I put on the Google drive is gone.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of refund would I get?<\/p>\n<p>Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>I can use other famous companies as examples. The trouble with all these free services is that those providers owe me just what I have paid them over the years\u2014nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the risk of using free anything. I pay nothing, and they owe me nothing. I do get what I pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Google and others give me free services. That means I get no refund if they fail. What if I woke tomorrow and Google had lost everything I ever did? All my gmails are gone; all my Google Docs are gone, and everything I put on the Google drive is gone. What kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,63],"tags":[122,183],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-expectations","tag-economics","tag-expectations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}