{"id":542,"date":"2006-07-19T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T08:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/aol-headaches\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T08:38:53","slug":"aol-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/19\/aol-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I cancelled our AOL service, it was a long and painful ordeal. The operator kept on asking me irrelevant questions, often the same ones over and over again. I had to state multiple times that I wanted to quit AOL, but only after 15 minutes of a steadfast unwillingness to reconsider staying with AOL did the representative finally get the cancellation process moving.<br \/>\nAOL is <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/exclusive\/aol-retention-manual-revealed-188005.php\">training<\/a> their people to hassle people from dropping their services. Although I didn&#8217;t have nearly as hard of a time as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/aol\/the-best-thing-we-have-ever-posted-reader-tries-to-cancel-aol-180392.php\">this guy<\/a>, the conversation bears an eerie resemblance my own personal experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I cancelled our AOL service, it was a long and painful ordeal. The operator kept on asking me irrelevant questions, often the same ones over and over again. I had to state multiple times that I wanted to quit AOL, but only after 15 minutes of a steadfast unwillingness to reconsider staying with AOL &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/19\/aol-headaches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}