{"id":4259,"date":"2011-11-19T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2011-11-19T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T17:03:43","slug":"5-ways-to-think-about-nuisance-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Think About Nuisance Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/sTsg6Z\">Ron Lieber<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If you have any doubt about the impact of the Bank of America debit card fee episode, consider a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p>First, it\u2019s now been lampooned in the form of a video on the Funny or Die site. In that clip, a fake Bank of America ad quotes customers thanking the bank for not burning down their houses or torturing their families in a dungeon.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it has induced a new wariness among companies in entirely different industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the Bank of America fee top of mind,\u201d said Bill Kula, a spokesman for Verizon. \u201cPart of my role is to get in front of executives and say \u2018Do you want your head chopped off if you do this?\u2019 \u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Lieber: If you have any doubt about the impact of the Bank of America debit card fee episode, consider a couple of things. First, it\u2019s now been lampooned in the form of a video on the Funny or Die site. In that clip, a fake Bank of America ad quotes customers thanking the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}