{"id":792,"date":"2011-03-27T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=792"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"click-here-to-unsubscribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/click-here-to-unsubscribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Click Here to Unsubscribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 27, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/17\/the-times-announces-digital-subscription-plan\/?scp=2&amp;sq=digital%20subscription%20plan&amp;st=cse\">last day of free access<\/a> to the online edition of the New York Times.\u00a0 As of tomorrow, casual readers will be able to view only 20 articles a month, and full access to the website will cost $15 a month.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that a newspaper needs to make money to survive, and I do like the quality* of the New York Times.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m also trying to trim our expenses: I plan to scale down our DirecTV service and I&#8217;m about ready to hand in my rarely-used cellphone.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t need to add another monthly payment to the list without cutting somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>So I plan to go cold turkey with The Times.\u00a0 (This just became a bit easier to do, now that Frank Rich is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/13\/opinion\/13rich.html?_r=1&amp;ref=frankrich\">no longer writing<\/a> his Sunday column.)\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h5>* Except for the Style Section.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t miss the Style Section.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 27, is the last day of free access to the online edition of the New York Times.\u00a0 As of tomorrow, casual readers will be able to view only 20 articles a month, and full access to the website &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/click-here-to-unsubscribe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}