{"id":413,"date":"2006-04-03T17:39:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:03","slug":"greater_union_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/04\/03\/greater_union_politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Union politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the Greater Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterunion.com.au\/\">website<\/a> today to book movie tickets (which I decided <em>against<\/em> because they charge a $1 per ticket booking fee!). Anyhow, while looking for ways to get cheaper tickets, I found that I could offset the $1 booking fee with a $1 discount by joining their Cinebuzz club.<\/p>\n<p>The whole &#8220;customer loyalty club&#8221; thing is usually a way for a business to track your viewing habits and get a hold of your e-mail and street address. Cinebuzz looks no different, but it&#8217;s good to see that they had a (very) brief FAQ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <strong>Why do you want my postal address details?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou only need to complete your address details if you want to become a member of the Cinebuzz Club and receive your free Cinebuzz Membership card. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the fact that this question was obviously common enough for them to make a remark, but the thing I love more is that the &#8220;answer&#8221; to the question isn&#8217;t really an answer at all. It&#8217;s the sort of response a politician would give to an uncomfortable question!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my suggested correction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <strong>Why do you want my postal address details?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe want to know where you live. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the Greater Union website today to book movie tickets (which I decided against because they charge a $1 per ticket booking fee!). Anyhow, while looking for ways to get cheaper tickets, I found that I could offset the $1 booking fee with a $1 discount by joining their Cinebuzz club. The whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/04\/03\/greater_union_politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greater Union politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}