{"id":13631,"date":"2026-04-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:58:17","slug":"wednesday-whaling-what-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/wednesday-whaling-what-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Whaling: What to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen a wave of shutdowns for heavy hitters from both Chase and American Express since Friday. The two banks shutting down at around the same time seems coincidental, but it&#8217;s a double whammy for a few manufactured spenders. We can talk about the reasons behind the shutdowns later, but there&#8217;s an important lesson that it&#8217;s time to reiterate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Burn your points early and often. When you&#8217;re shutdown, you may lose them altogether.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I can only assume that you don&#8217;t want to be the guy stuck with 80 million Membership Rewards that were just confiscated, but you know what they say about when you assume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck out there!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-22.png 588w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-22-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">I guess it could always be worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a wave of shutdowns for heavy hitters from both Chase and American Express since Friday. The two banks shutting down at around the<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","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=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}