{"id":79,"date":"2005-09-28T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-05-20T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T20:36:34","slug":"i-hate-ticketmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/i-hate-ticketmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate Ticketmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Okay, who doesn&#8217;t. Still, can anyone explain to me how it can cost 8.55 PER TICKET for them to print up the ticket, put it in an envelope and mail it to me? That&#8217;s on TOP of the postage, by the way. Plus, they call it a &#8220;convenience charge.&#8221; What is convenient about charging 34 bucks for a ticket that has a face value of 21.50? Hello? Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>I walked down to the Paramount theater and bought the tix directly from their box office. Ticketmaster can bite me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, who doesn&#8217;t. Still, can anyone explain to me how it can cost 8.55 PER TICKET for them to print up the ticket, put it in an envelope and mail it to me? That&#8217;s on TOP of the postage, by the way. Plus, they call it a &#8220;convenience charge.&#8221; What is convenient about charging 34 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"I hate Ticketmaster\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/i-hate-ticketmaster\/#more-79\" aria-label=\"Read more about I hate Ticketmaster\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}