{"id":874,"date":"2003-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/14\/e-z-p-ass-debacle\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T20:00:00","slug":"e-z-p-ass-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/14\/e-z-p-ass-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Z-P-ASS Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just switched my Amex card from a Gold Card to a &#8220;Green Card with Rewards&#8221;. Switching saves me a few bucks and doesn&#8217;t affect me at all since I&#8217;ve never used any of the gold card bells and whistles. I went to the E-Z-PASS website to change my account over to the new credit card number but it wouldn&#8217;t take my number.. So I called them on the phone. The E-Z-PASS lady changed me over no problem. I asked for help with the website and she asked me what website I was going to. It instantly dawned on me that the stupid money-sucking, corruption ridden, problem laden, pork-barrel politicking system that was &#8220;E-Z-Pass&#8221; was to blame. You see, Google&#8217;s first response for E-Z-Pass is (obviously) http:\/\/www.ezpass.com\/. But my bill references http:\/\/www.e-zpassny.com. E-Z-Pass NY and E-Z-Pass NJ are two completely different, non-overlapping entities. &#8220;But&#8230;&#8221; I say. And I stop, remembering all the hoopla over the system over the past 3 years. The shady dealings, money laundering, intentional cost overruns, and scandal. And then I wish that I had been an inside-investor in E-Z-P-ASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just switched my Amex card from a Gold Card to a &#8220;Green Card with Rewards&#8221;. Switching saves me a few bucks and doesn&#8217;t affect me at all since I&#8217;ve never used any of the gold card bells and whistles. I went to the E-Z-PASS website to change my account over to the new credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}