{"id":1264,"date":"2006-10-01T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2008-07-18T20:49:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T01:49:56","slug":"paid-for-watching-tv-hell-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Paid for watching tv? Hell yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today someone kept calling me but when I didn&#8217;t pick up (because I was busy and didn&#8217;t recognize the number), they refused to leave a message. Finally after the fourth call, I was aggravated so I answered, and it was the survey company I signed up with a few years ago. They typically call asking me to spend a few hours at a location in the suburbs looking at advertisements and answering questions, although I haven&#8217;t been to one in awhile even though it pays well ($75) since they&#8217;re usually scheduled before my work shift ends. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight they had something new for me: a survey I could do at home. All I had to do, I was told,  was tune into a public access channel for a half hour, watch the show, then answer some questions when they called me back. Paid to watch tv? I&#8217;m so there! <\/p>\n<p>The show sucked but I worked out while I watched and the follow-up questions lasted less than 15 minutes. They are sending me a check for $25 for my time which worked out to be less than an hour total. Pretty sweet deal, if you ask me. Hell, that&#8217;s more than I make at my real job! I told them to give me a call anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today someone kept calling me but when I didn&#8217;t pick up (because I was busy and didn&#8217;t recognize the number), they refused to leave a message. Finally after the fourth call, I was aggravated so I answered, and it was the survey company I signed up with a few years ago. They typically call asking me to spend a few hours at a location in the suburbs looking at advertisements and answering questions, although I haven&#8217;t been to one in awhile even though it pays well ($75) since they&#8217;re usually scheduled before my work shift ends. Tonight they had something new for me: a survey I could do at home. All I had to do, I was told, was tune into a public access channel for a half hour, watch the show, then answer some questions when they called me back. Paid to watch tv? I&#8217;m so there! The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1264\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}