{"id":316,"date":"2014-07-09T22:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2014-07-09T22:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:16:50","slug":"off-the-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Off the reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/07\/tech\/mobile\/reservation-hop-app-controversy\/\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/07\/tech\/mobile\/reservation-hop-app-controversy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I love just about everything this app entails. Selling restaurant reservations for cash? That&#8217;s brilliant. Why did it take until 2014 for this to occur?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, there&#8217;s a potential issue of fraud here, given that some reservations are knowingly not being used. This issue could be solved by simply requiring a credit card and a &#8220;no show&#8221; fee. Trust me, some day soon restaurants will do this themselves, not through some third party.<\/p>\n<p>I think the most interesting statement in the article centers around this\u00a0wave of anger over &#8220;making money off something that should be free.&#8221; <em>Something that should be free.<\/em> That is so god damn hilarious I don&#8217;t even know where to start. Yeah, everything <em>should<\/em> be free.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0little econ lesson, starting with an old saying: time is money. Time spent in\u00a0procuring reservations?\u00a0Last-minute reservations? There&#8217;s no value in that? Seems to me we&#8217;re finally putting a real price on something that had a hidden price all along.<\/p>\n<p>Things that should be free.\u00a0This is what happens when journalists and &#8220;San Francisco&#8221; types\u00a0mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/07\/tech\/mobile\/reservation-hop-app-controversy\/ I&#8217;m pretty sure I love just about everything this app entails. Selling restaurant reservations for cash? That&#8217;s brilliant. Why did it take until 2014 for this to occur? Okay, there&#8217;s a potential issue of fraud here, given that some &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}