{"id":936,"date":"2021-02-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:44:28","slug":"presidential-embiggening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/presidential-embiggening\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Embiggening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong><\/em>: I was severely punked: Both of these deals died between when I scheduled this post and when it was published a few hours later. Sorry. In the mean time, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/saksfifthavenue.com?query=saks&amp;position=1&amp;type=suggest&amp;store=9154\">Saks Fifth Avenue is now 10x at the Rakuten portal<\/a>, so now is a good time to cash out your $50 American Express Personal Platinum credits and earn 500 Membership Rewards points in the process.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p>A couple of deals that I wrote about in the past weeks are still around and are bigger than before thanks to Presidents\u2019 Day promotions. (Thanks for making me look like a small-deal-pushing-tool, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Washington.) If you want to take advantage again with a P2, or if you missed it the first time, go for each of these bigger bonuses:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/a-tale-of-two-deals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Visible Wireless deal,<\/a> available with your burner phone SIMs (or your main SIM I guess), is even better now with $60 or 6,000 Membership Rewards back from <a aria-label=\"Rakuten (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/visible.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rakuten<\/a> thanks to today\u2019s promotion. You also get a $100 Mastercard after two months. <em>Update: it\u2019s down to $25 or 2,500 points. Boo. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <a aria-label=\"Depositing $1 at Betterment (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/10\/wednesday-twosome\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Depositing $1 in a new account Betterment<\/a> now earns you either $127.50 or 12,750 Membership Rewards points when you open the account through the <a aria-label=\"Rakuten portal (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/betterment.com?query=betterment&amp;position=1&amp;type=suggest&amp;store=19190\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rakuten portal<\/a>. This is worth doing for P2, P3, P4, and any other players at your disposal. Skip P7 though, that guy\u2019s a jerk. <em>Update: the presidents got me again. It\u2019s now back down to $75 it 7,500 points. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-editorskit-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt='The Merriam-Webster definition of the word embiggen: \"to make bigger or more expansive\".' class=\"wp-image-937\" height=\"615\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1024x615.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image.png 1206w\" width=\"1024\"\/><figcaption>See English professor? I told you it was a real word.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I was severely punked: Both of these deals died between when I scheduled this post and when it was published a few hours later.<\/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":[6],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-hits","tag-rakuten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7356,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/7356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}