{"id":1293,"date":"2021-04-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:37:25","slug":"aa-schemes-and-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/aa-schemes-and-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"AA Schemes and It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m mad at AA and myself: AA\u2019s AAdvantage program is celebrating a forty year anniversary and they\u2019ve schemed to get people like me to write about it by apparently giving away millions of miles, AAdmiral\u2019s Club passes, and upgrades. Basically <a aria-label=\"Basically you go to this site (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aadvantage40th.com\/#\/landing\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you go to this site<\/a>, click all of the big blue buttons to earn spins, then you go spin the globe a few times to \u201cwin\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>I did it, and I \u201cwon\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c15% Off; one (1) HD SimpliCam Camera and one (1) month of professional monitoring with SimpliSafe\u201d<\/li>\n<li>40 AA miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, talk about lackluster. In the end, I\u2019d say I lost and AA \u201cwon\u201d. I\u2019ll stick to <a aria-label=\"stock market gambling (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/SPACs\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stock market gambling<\/a> in the future. Why am I writing about this then? Because I want one of you to win (without quotes) to help vindicate my sense of being bamboozled as a pawn in AA\u2019s long game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" height=\"419\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dg.jpg 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dg-150x150.jpg 150w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Yes, sometimes I\u2019m a degenerate gambler in the stock market, but only with a small amounts of money. Most still goes into low cost index funds. Wait, is this blog about investing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m mad at AA and myself: AA\u2019s AAdvantage program is celebrating a forty year anniversary and they\u2019ve schemed to get people like me to write<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louse","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}