{"id":170,"date":"2006-07-24T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/07\/aol-hell.html"},"modified":"2006-07-24T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T15:10:00","slug":"aol-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/aol-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Vincent Ferrari wanted to do was cancel his AOL account. But he wound up in the tarpit of inept customer service. So Ferrari blogged and oh, how AOL now wishes he hadn&#8217;t. You can read this remarkable story of the power of viral marketing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovations.ziffdavis.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/making_it_or_br.html\">at the blog I write for Ziff-Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/del.icio.us\/pgillin\/viral_marketing\">Viral marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/del.icio.us\/pgillin\/blog\">Blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Vincent Ferrari wanted to do was cancel his AOL account. But he wound up in the tarpit of inept customer service. So Ferrari blogged and oh, how AOL now wishes he hadn&#8217;t. You can read this remarkable story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/aol-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-2K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}