{"id":2632,"date":"2013-08-20T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2013-08-20T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:32:16","slug":"screw-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/screw-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw Facebook&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased an Epiphone Les Paul 100, basically a lightweight body with all the Les Paul electronics&#8230;.  It plays as good, if not better, than the outrageously priced Gibson models&#8230;  I signed up for the Epiphone newsletters&#8230;.  In the most current one, which is their 140 anniversary issue, they are giving away a one-of-a-kind Epiphone guitar and a signed copy of the Epiphone history book&#8230;..  Here&#8217;s the rub&#8230;.  You HAVE to be on Facebook, or sign-up on Facebook to enter&#8230;.  I&#8217;m sorry, I don&#8217;t care for social media, I have a social life with lots of friends, and I don&#8217;t care to get involved with a bunch of I-Me-Mine Yo-Yo&#8217;s that think the World should know how great they are&#8230;..  If you click to NOT share on Facebook &#8211; you don&#8217;t get entered&#8230;.  Keep your damn guitar, Epiphone!&#8230;.  It&#8217;s a shame that you do make such a great product, but, forcing people to join Facebook&#8230;.  Sorry, you just lost any future sales from this little known guitarist&#8230;.  Wake up People, the almighty dollar DOES NOT have to be the bottom line!  Where&#8217;s my Strat?&#8230;..     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased an Epiphone Les Paul 100, basically a lightweight body with all the Les Paul electronics&#8230;. It plays as good, if not better, than the outrageously priced Gibson models&#8230; I signed up for the Epiphone newsletters&#8230;. In the most current one, which is their 140 anniversary issue, they are giving away a one-of-a-kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}