{"id":4950,"date":"2022-07-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:31:44","slug":"wednesday-wisdom-go-zombie-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/wednesday-wisdom-go-zombie-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wisdom: Go Zombie Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Churning and manufactured spend opportunities go away all the time; just this month we\u2019ve seen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/tuesday-deluge\/\">demise of the Point debit card<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/rakuten-visa-card-no-longer-accepting-applications\/\">removal<\/a> of new applications for <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/unsung-heroes-rakuten-visa\/\">Rakuten Visa<\/a> (the original <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/category\/unsung-heroes\/\">MEAB Unsung Hero<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Certain Mastercard gift cards failing to work with Citi pay-by-phone<\/li>\n<li>The loss of most <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/american-express-employee-card-offers\/\">99 employee card offers<\/a> with American Express<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/skift.com\/2022\/07\/06\/sas-joins-list-of-airline-failures-and-bankruptcies-since-pandemics-start\/#:~:text=One%20of%20Europe's%20largest%20airlines,experienced%20a%20rash%20of%20bankruptcies.\">SAS<\/a> (ok, maybe not quite yet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That list isn\u2019t comprehensive either, other deals have been lost in July too. Fortunately July has also brought a hand-full of old deals back from the dead, including some hinted at <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/tuesday-deluge\/\">just yesterday<\/a>, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/18\/monday-grab-bag\/\">the week before<\/a>, or a <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/manufactured-spend-developments\/\">few weeks ago<\/a>. What\u2019s the lesson here? Deals often don\u2019t stay dead. When it\u2019s time to get out there and probe, spend a bit of time looking for deals that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0816711\/\">want to attack Brad Pitt<\/a>. They\u2019re out there, and they\u2019re often very fruitful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4951\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dab.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dab.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dab-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dab-768x776.jpeg 768w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">A Walmart employee prepares to attack Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churning and manufactured spend opportunities go away all the time; just this month we\u2019ve seen: The demise of the Point debit card The removal of<\/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":[12,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}