{"id":4701,"date":"2022-06-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:37:37","slug":"thursday-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/16\/thursday-grab-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>American Express has targeted even more people for 20,000 Membership Rewards for turning on Pay Over Time, and thus round included me. They\u2019ve made a couple of other significant updates to these bonuses:\n<p>\u2013 You\u2019re now eligible for a new bonus every 120 days, just make sure you turn it back off to be targeted again in the future<br \/>\u2013 You no longer need to switch the default card when searching for bonuses, just picking a new card is now enough to see if there\u2019s a bonus available<\/p>\n<p>Check to see if you\u2019re targeted at the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/lending\/pay-over-time\">Pay Over Time landing page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/unsung-hero-citi-shop-your-way-rewards-mastercard\/\">Citi Shop Your Way Mastercard (the classic MEAB Unsung Hero<\/a>) has another round of targeted spend bonuses through July 14. Offers have been reported for:\n<p>\u2013 150,000 points after $2,000 in spend<br \/>\u2013 12,500 ThankYou points for $2,000 in spend (Thanks to BB_Pcola)<br \/>\u2013 $50 after $1,000 in spend (Thanks to birt)<\/p>\n<p>The subject for my offer was \u201c<em>Name<\/em>, open now to unlock your special, limited-time offer! \ud83c\udf1f\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>IHG is reportedly sending out targeted offers for 12,000 points for two stays within 60 days of registration, and the registration deadline is November 30.\n<p>Check your inbox for the subject \u201cWelcome back! Celebrate with 12,000 points\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/air\/flight-schedules\/\">Southwest is expected to release its next schedule extension today<\/a> for travel between November 11 and January 4, so it covers all major winter holidays.\n<p>Experts should look for inexpensive flights that are likely to be changed within two weeks of their actual desired travel too. (Thanks to Brian M via MEAB slack)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4704\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2-1024x768.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FTdjtFkX0AAB4e2.jpeg 1280w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">On second thought maybe everything should come in a grab bag, hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express has targeted even more people for 20,000 Membership Rewards for turning on Pay Over Time, and thus round included me. They\u2019ve made a<\/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":[54,64,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-points","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7010,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}