{"id":204,"date":"2005-08-27T21:58:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T04:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:42:53","slug":"stupid-online-registries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/27\/stupid-online-registries\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Online Registries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to get something for <a href=\"http:\/\/humblehearth.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie<\/a> for her bridal registry. She&#8217;d registered at Pier 1 Imports and Sears Canada. So I started shopping. First I started at Sears. After I added my items from the registry, filled in my billing info, all excited and ready to check out, it turned out that I had to supply Maggie&#8217;s address&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>What the hell? The whole point of going through a registry electronically is so that THEY can provide all the vital information. So I ditched Sears.<\/p>\n<p>Pier1.com was my next stop. I went through the same process of adding the items, filled out my billing info and ready to check out, but again, they expected me to have Maggie&#8217;s shipping info handy.<\/p>\n<p>WTF?! Why can&#8217;t they do it like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=poweratom-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> where the register&#8217;s information is provided without assuming that the buyer already knows what it is?<\/p>\n<p>God, I hate stupid sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to get something for Maggie for her bridal registry. She&#8217;d registered at Pier 1 Imports and Sears Canada. So I started shopping. First I started at Sears. After I added my items from the registry, filled in my billing info, all excited and ready to check out, it turned out that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/27\/stupid-online-registries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid Online Registries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-logo","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-3i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}