{"id":154,"date":"2010-10-17T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/17\/first-rental-experience-with-redbox\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T21:30:46","slug":"first-rental-experience-with-redbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/17\/first-rental-experience-with-redbox\/","title":{"rendered":"First rental experience with Redbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"20101016-090236.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Well my addiction to McDonalds Monopoly Game has me winning a free rental at Redbox. I had to setup an account and guarantee the return of the movie with a credit card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-153\" title=\"20101016-090246.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090246-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090246-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101016-090246.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>I used their iPhone app to find the nearest location at a 7-11 two blocks away. They also have a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbox.com\">Redbox<\/a> or you can pick your movie using the touchscreen on the box itself.<\/p>\n<p>My family decided on Karate Kid (the new one starring Will Smith&#8217;s son). We were surprised to see so many recent releases. We also found that if I hadn&#8217;t won a free movie credit from McDonalds (who until recently was part owner), the rental would have been only $1.07. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>We returned the movie by 9pm the next day. I&#8217;d do it again and by choosing and reserving the movie from my phone while at dinner with the family, the experience was very convenient.<\/p>\n<p>What experiences have you had with Redbox movie rentals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well my addiction to McDonalds Monopoly Game has me winning a free rental at Redbox. I had to setup an account and guarantee the return of the movie with a credit card. I used their iPhone app to find the nearest location at a 7-11 two blocks away. They also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}