{"id":9861,"date":"2024-06-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2024-06-25T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T14:12:54","slug":"tuesday-interlude-reading-between-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/tuesday-interlude-reading-between-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Interlude: Reading Between the Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manufactured spend, churning, and travel hacking are often hidden behind a veil of coded words and language, and whether or not that&#8217;s necessary is a <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/tuesday-diversion-sharing-absolutism-versus-the-middle-ground\/\">subject for another time<\/a>. Often the coding isn&#8217;t direct words, but rather what isn&#8217;t being said. That is, sometimes to find the weiner hiding between two sides of a hot-dug bun (you\u2019re welcome Chad), we need to read between the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KerrPoints\/status\/1805235646119743934\">an almost perfect, chef&#8217;s kiss example<\/a> of reading between the lines graced churners. And, as if that weren&#8217;t enough, it came from a prior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/32479814-post3299.html\">churning<\/a><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/32479814-post3299.html\"> gamer<\/a> turned gamee. (In case the post is deleted, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-6.png\">I&#8217;ve archived an image for future generations)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><center><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fluz-ers, enjoy your last rent day being able to game. Y\u2019all sure eat a lot of $512.95 meals in one day.<\/p>\u2014 Richard Kerr (@KerrPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KerrPoints\/status\/1805235646119743934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a more perfect and succinct object lesson. I mean, this is college textbook, honorary PhD, commemorative gold-leaf plaque level, but I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are at least two sides to explore this post from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you know exactly what this post is talking about: Try and view it through the lens of someone who doesn&#8217;t, and ask questions like, &#8220;what sticks out about this post?&#8221; and &#8220;What might help you recognize posts like this in the future when you might not know it&#8217;s talking about?&#8221; The better you answer those questions, the more effective you&#8217;ll be in the future.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you don&#8217;t know what this is about: There are a few weird things about this post. To help with what those might be, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/biltrewards\/comments\/1dneojp\/comment\/la1z13d\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">some friendly redditors ask questions and make probably incorrect assumptions<\/a> based on those questions. Do their answers make sense? What happens if you explore a little, do those explorations line up with those answers? Also, what do <s>twitter<\/s> X users have to say? Finally, who is this guy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, and happy Tuesday! Also, sorry not sorry for another &#8220;so-cryptic-that-no-one-can-understand&#8221; MEAB post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>PS: I like Richard, he&#8217;s a decent guy and I don&#8217;t think he deserves the bad rap he gets. We need to separate the gaffe from the human on this one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-1024x701.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9865\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-1536x1051.png 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-2048x1402.png 2048w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-8-1320x903.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">A churner consults the MEAB decoder book, unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufactured spend, churning, and travel hacking are often hidden behind a veil of coded words and language, and whether or not that&#8217;s necessary is 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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9886,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/9886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}