{"id":544,"date":"2008-08-04T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bad-news-from-the-quilt-world\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:11:35","slug":"bad-news-from-the-quilt-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bad-news-from-the-quilt-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News from the Quilt World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my recent issue of Quilter&#8217;s Newsletter and it is time to cancel. They, recently, had a big campaign to get people to sign up for a 3 year subscription. I thought they had made some nice changes lately after recent content problems, so I signed up.<\/p>\n<p>Stupidly, apparently.<\/p>\n<p> Hidden in the middle of the Editor&#8217;s column, she announced the magazine would be printed only 6 times per year. The reason given was that readers have said they can&#8217;t read all the information in one month.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>This situation seems unethical and I really don&#8217;t want to do business with such a company.It seems wrong to have recently asked subscribers pay for 30 issues and then change the publishing schedule to only 18 issues over 3 years.  If I am desperate, I can always buy an issue on the newsstand.  My call to cancel and get a refund has already been made.<\/p>\n<p>Additional bad news came locally when I drove by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcatquilts.com\/\">Black Cat Quilts<\/a>, on Ocean Ave in San Francisco to see a 50% off-going out of business sale. Huh? What gives? The economy? High rents? Very sad. I wish Gretchen and her crew all the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my recent issue of Quilter&#8217;s Newsletter and it is time to cancel. They, recently, had a big campaign to get people to sign up for a 3 year subscription. I thought they had made some nice changes lately after recent content problems, so I signed up. Stupidly, apparently. Hidden in the middle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bad-news-from-the-quilt-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad News from the Quilt World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[388],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-quilt-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}