{"id":641,"date":"2010-02-10T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=641"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:51:34","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2010\/02\/10\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My son<\/a>‘s recent assignment for driver education class was to research insurance quotes. (I’m not sure how relevant that is to the actual practice of vehicle operation<\/em>, but there you go.) I didn’t think that you’d be able to obtain actual quotes online; I was wrong.<\/p>\n

But what really blew me away was how available certain information has become. With nothing more than my son’s<\/em> name and street address\u00c2\u00a0Geico<\/a> was happy to hand back a list of our vehicles. My<\/em> vehicles – NOT the kid’s vehicles – mine. No authentication, no nothing.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking of sitting down with the yearbook. It’s easy enough to associate local addresses with names – Google and the Post Office are glad to help with that – unless maybe your name’s Patel. Then do the lookups and compile the vehicle lists – again, easy, as we’ve discovered. In fact, since I’m tech, I’d automate that part. With that humming along it’s time to put on the marketing hat… Who’d be interested in who drives what? How ’bout you?<\/p>\n

One thing’s interesting, though. They didn’t list my motorcycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son‘s recent assignment for driver education class was to research insurance quotes. (I’m not sure how relevant that is to the actual practice of vehicle operation, but there you go.) I didn’t think that you’d be able to obtain actual quotes online; I was wrong. But what really blew me away was how available … Continue reading Surprise!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[48,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}