{"id":2624,"date":"2011-01-24T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2011-01-24T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:36:43","slug":"aols-profits-come-from-ill-informed-geezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"AOL&#8217;s Profits Come From Ill-Informed Geezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the article below, AOL is profiting because a lot of old people who use computers are unaware that they don&#8217;t need AOL. Those users already have an email account at their ISP, but they still pay $25\/month for AOL service just to use the email address. That&#8217;s a silly waste of money, but I can see how it happens: Too many people are misinformed and ignorant when it comes to computers. They just don&#8217;t know any better. That&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/21\/aols-dirty-little-secret-_n_812307.html?ir=Business\" target=\"_blank\">Article Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the article below, AOL is profiting because a lot of old people who use computers are unaware that they don&#8217;t need AOL. Those users already have an email account at their ISP, but they still pay $25\/month for AOL service just to use the email address. That&#8217;s a silly waste of money, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}