{"id":1852,"date":"2014-03-19T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2014-03-19T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:34:25","slug":"why-im-not-renewing-my-washington-post-sunday-only-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/why-im-not-renewing-my-washington-post-sunday-only-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m not renewing my Washington Post Sunday-Only Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really enjoying the paper for a while. It had a lot of good coupons and the paper itself helped when making paper logs and camp fires.<\/p>\n<p>I saved money. I started fires. I covered the floor when working on painting or projects that would get messy. It was a perfect typeset drop cloth. The newspaper served its purpose and served it well. I even read it periodically to see what the Internet hadn&#8217;t talked about days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, I realized no one reads the newspaper anymore. It&#8217;s not hip. My friends aren&#8217;t posting shout-outs in the classifieds section. It&#8217;s all news and events in DC. I can get that elsewhere, including the online version of the same paper. I don&#8217;t need it in print.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/jeff-bezos-on-post-purchase\/2013\/08\/05\/e5b293de-fe0d-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html\">Jeff Bezos bought the paper last year<\/a>, I don&#8217;t know if I know where the paper&#8217;s priorities are anymore. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the same thing I bought into when I originally subscribed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use the paper for anything anymore. And I have plenty of access to the archives in a pile in a closet so I&#8217;m more than ready for camping season.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it continues to do well. I&#8217;ll check in on it from time to time. They still have an old Linotype machine in front of the building.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peroty\/3658806606\/player\/32b3e60776\" height=\"1024\" width=\"768\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really enjoying the paper for a while. It had a lot of good coupons and the paper itself helped when making paper logs and camp fires. I saved money. I started fires. I covered the floor when working on painting or projects that would get messy. It was a perfect typeset drop cloth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Why I'm not renewing my Washington Post Sunday-Only Subscription","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,561,562],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-newspaper","tag-parody","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}