{"id":16059,"date":"2012-11-25T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:12:22","slug":"verizon-is-still-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/verizon-is-still-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Is Still Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my latest Verizon bill and almost fainted from the shock: $270. I know that my current plan is $170 per month, but where did the other $100 come from? Ah, they backdated my data plan for the last billing period, even though that only gave me five days to use up 12GB!<\/p>\n<p>Since they were <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14725\">so reasonable the last time I had a billing issue<\/a>, I decided to call and ask them to adjust that $100 to reflect the amount of data I actually used.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have to beg or plead or lay it on thick or anything. I just explained the facts as above, the dude put me on hold to get an authorization from a supervisor, and when he came back, $70 had been taken off my bill.<\/p>\n<p>I made a reasonable request, had no problem paying what I genuinely owe, and they responded respectfully, logically, and fairly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I just about cried the last time I got off the phone with Telus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my latest Verizon bill and almost fainted from the shock: $270. I know that my current plan is $170 per month, but where did the other $100 come from? Ah, they backdated my data plan for the last billing period, even though that only gave me five days to use up 12GB! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}