{"id":105,"date":"2004-05-20T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-12-05T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:13:31","slug":"insurance-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2004\/05\/20\/insurance-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an unsolicited call to my mobile. Some guy trying to sell handset insurance. He said: &#8220;I understand that you pay \u00c2\u00a37.99 per month for insurance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said: &#8220;No, I cancelled it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Ah, well, I&#8217;d like to make you a better offer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Better than \u00c2\u00a30 per month?&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haha, &#8221; he said, &#8220;Yes, that would be a good offer, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, &#8221; I said. &#8220;Yes, it would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyway, &#8221; he said, &#8220;I shall tell you of my offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seriously, is it a better offer than my current deal?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Because if it is, then I&#8217;m all ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He paused, and then thanked me for my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an unsolicited call to my mobile. Some guy trying to sell handset insurance. He said: &#8220;I understand that you pay \u00c2\u00a37.99 per month for insurance?&#8221; I said: &#8220;No, I cancelled it.&#8221; He said: &#8220;Ah, well, I&#8217;d like to make you a better offer?&#8221; &#8220;Better than \u00c2\u00a30 per month?&#8221; I said. &#8220;Haha, &#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}