{"id":38661,"date":"2020-01-09T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38661"},"modified":"2020-01-09T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:44:13","slug":"i-have-a-small-personal-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/i-have-a-small-personal-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Small, Personal Sad &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not terrible \u2013 just going to be time-consuming.\u00a0 So no <em>&#8220;Friday Fun&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On January 2<sup>nd<\/sup> I got a notification from one of my credit cards that there was activity on my account that they didn&#8217;t recognize &amp; looked suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>On review, I didn&#8217;t recognize it either \u2013 so I called. They decided that &#8220;out of an abundance of caution&#8221; they would terminate that card &amp; send me a new one.<\/p>\n<p>The next day when I logged in, it was clear that the unrecognized action was an online donation on 12\/31 to an organization I had previously always written a check.<\/p>\n<p>But the die was cast!<\/p>\n<p>I got my new card the other day and activated it today. And I decided that since it&#8217;s been a while, I would go ahead and change my User &amp; Password.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this created a <em>HUGE<\/em> snafu requiring three f\/u (the medical <em>&#8220;follow-up&#8221;<\/em> \u2026 NOT the other f\/u) phone calls and over 2 hours to straighten out. <em>(*sigh*)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But now I have to contact 15 &#8220;Merchants&#8221; who I setup as automatic payments and notify them of my new card number, expiration date &amp; CVV\/CVC number.<\/p>\n<p>My weekend beginning tomorrow is shot.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said \u2013 not terrible, just time-consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s not terrible \u2013 just going to be time-consuming.\u00a0 So no &#8220;Friday Fun&#8221;. On January 2nd I got a notification from one of my credit cards that there was activity on my account that they didn&#8217;t recognize &amp; looked suspicious. On review, I didn&#8217;t recognize it either \u2013 so I called. They decided that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/i-have-a-small-personal-sad\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3837],"class_list":["post-38661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-credit-card","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}