{"id":463,"date":"2008-02-29T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2008-02-29T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:41:41","slug":"when-good-intentions-bite-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"When good intentions bite back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve switched to Green Mountain Energy, a company that uses renewable resources for their energy at surprisingly competitive rates. This gives me (well, maybe Laureen and not necessarily me) a semi-warm fuzzy about not harming the environment.<\/p>\n<p>After one disconnect and reconnect, I tried to set up auto payment. First off, in order to access the online portion, you need a password, which is apparently created by monkeys flinging dung at keyboards. You also have to call in to get the password as there&#8217;s no way to set up your account online. So, an attempt to use something for 24-hour service requires a call to a call center that&#8217;s open for 12 of those hours&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>After going through the rigamarole of changing the monkey-dung to a more memorable version of monkey-dung, I try to set up automatic payment through my bank account. Not a big deal, right?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taken to a page where there&#8217;s a form. What&#8217;s at the top of the form?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Save a stamp and check!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And in the text on the form:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>NOTE: YOU MUST INCLUDE A VOIDED CHECK ALONG WITH THIS ENROLLMENT FORM.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I have to print the form out, mail it in with a stamp and a voided check?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve switched to Green Mountain Energy, a company that uses renewable resources for their energy at surprisingly competitive rates. This gives me (well, maybe Laureen and not necessarily me) a semi-warm fuzzy about not harming the environment. After one disconnect and reconnect, I tried to set up auto payment. First off, in order to access &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When good intentions bite back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-floating-hostility","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}