{"id":24000,"date":"2025-10-15T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24000"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:31:48","slug":"trials-and-tribulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24000","title":{"rendered":"Trials and Tribulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My hubby and I signed up for a free 7-day trial of Apple TV. I wanted to watch <em>Foundation<\/em>, and we thought it made sense to check out Apple TV&#8217;s other offerings now, with the goal of maybe trying to get a reduced-cost subscription around Christmastime if it still seemed worthwhile. My hubby set it all up using my computer and ran into no problems. But the moment I tried to sign in to cancel the trial so that we wouldn&#8217;t get charged, suddenly the website had numerous additional demands (such as my cell phone number) and persistent glitches that couldn&#8217;t be gotten around. I literally couldn&#8217;t sign into my account, even after going through several different authentication processes, and it pissed me off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after this frustrating ordeal, I got a receipt from Apple in my e-mail. They&#8217;d charged us for the month. Grrrr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize that by the time I tried to sign in, it was probably too late to cancel. And that&#8217;s on me, because I&#8217;m the one who got the e-mail verifying our subscription, and I should have read the fine print. But just because it&#8217;s my fault doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t grrr over it, and certainly all those computer glitches were NOT my fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on the bright side, now I&#8217;ll be able to watch more <em>Foundation<\/em> and <em>Murderbot<\/em> and all sorts of other things. Anyone inclined to call me a glass-half-empty, pessimistic type, should take note of this, because I&#8217;m <em>very optimistic<\/em> about my future TV watching. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hubby and I signed up for a free 7-day trial of Apple TV. I wanted to watch Foundation, and we thought it made sense to check out Apple TV&#8217;s other offerings now, with the goal of maybe trying to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24000\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24001,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000\/revisions\/24001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}