{"id":2496,"date":"2011-03-28T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:05:02","slug":"another-bright-idea-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Another Bright Idea Not Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx &#8220;Office Print Online&#8221; sounds like a great idea for work-at-home types like me. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2011\/03\/fedex-office-print-online-sucks.html\">But if it won&#8217;t work in Los Angeles<\/a>, I hold out no hope for southern Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The follow-up customer (dis)service is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2011\/03\/fedex-office-print-online-sucks.html\"> equally bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt FedEx is promoting this as a wonderful time-saver for the self-employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx &#8220;Office Print Online&#8221; sounds like a great idea for work-at-home types like me. But if it won&#8217;t work in Los Angeles, I hold out no hope for southern Colorado. The follow-up customer (dis)service is equally bad. No doubt FedEx is promoting this as a wonderful time-saver for the self-employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Eg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5104,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5104","url_meta":{"origin":2496,"position":0},"title":"A FedEx Delivery from R&#8217;lyeh","author":"Chas S. 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