{"id":1399,"date":"2010-02-25T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:54:16","slug":"another-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Another Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rented a golf cart the other day.&#160; On our way back to our resort from town, this guy stops us in the road.&#160; This guy happens to be one of those timeshare recruiter guys who offers you something in order to hear their spiel to buy a timeshare.&#160; Normally they give you free breakfast or lunch or even cash.&#160; We got $100 cash last time we were here.&#160; This was different though.&#160; Instead, he handed us this scratch off card like a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne scratches her ticket gets one palm tree and 2 big X\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on her ticket.&#160; I scratch off my ticket and I got three palm trees.&#160; This is good, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, everyone is a winner here at Village Reef.&#160; That single palm tree gets you $25 or something.&#160; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the exact prize.&#160; But the real winner here is the three palm trees.&#160; We take a look at the back and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the big prize!&#160; There are three possible prizes.&#160; A) Caribbean vacation.&#160; B) $1000 HP Laptop.&#160; C) $700 US cash.&#160; I want the cash.<\/p>\n<p>However the choice is not ours to make.&#160; There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153void if remove\u00e2\u20ac\u009d part on the ticket will reveal what we actually won.&#160; However, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to go through the timeshare spiel in order to claim our prize.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning we go back to there to claim our free breakfast and big prize.&#160; We meet up with Laura (who by the way was 100x better than the Williamsburg spiel-er).&#160; We were not interested, and went on to collect our prize.&#160; Guess what we got.<\/p>\n<p>I could use a laptop or sell it.&#160; The cash works even better.&#160; But when are we going to be able to go on another vacation in the next 12 months?&#160; Worst off it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not redeemable for cash and non-transferable (unless authorized, whatever that means).&#160; Hopefully we can sell this or give it away.&#160; The place was nice though.<\/p>\n<p>No Nexus One for me yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_6279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"IMG_6279\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_6279\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_6279_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rented a golf cart the other day.&#160; On our way back to our resort from town, this guy stops us in the road.&#160; This guy happens to be one of those timeshare recruiter guys who offers you something in order to hear their spiel to buy a timeshare.&#160; Normally they give you free breakfast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=1399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Vacation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,146,147,44,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belize","category-spiel","category-timeshare","category-vacation","category-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}