{"id":30,"date":"2020-01-04T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/it-shouldnt-take-a-degree-in-cs-to-use-an-app\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:30:16","slug":"it-shouldnt-take-a-degree-in-cs-to-use-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/it-shouldnt-take-a-degree-in-cs-to-use-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"It shouldn’t take a degree in C.S. to use an app"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am opposed to using a credit card at a gas pump.  I'm fairly sure my identity has been stolen at one at least once in my life.  Also at a hotel in west Fort Worth, and at a Chili's in North Dallas.<\/p>\n

I got spoiled on my trip to Boston, all the pumps took Apple Pay.<\/p>\n

The easiest gas station for me to use (across from my gym), is one I worry about have card skimmers.  I've been working hard to find pumps that take Apple Pay.  Thought the Chevron did near the house, and while it has the symbol, I couldn't get it to work.<\/p>\n

Today I tried to use the "new" Exxon\/Mobile + app.  Supposedly it works with Apple Pay and supposedly it works with credit cards, but not today at that station.  I ended up sitting down and reading it in my car before I pumped gas to get it to work at all –> collect points.<\/p>\n

So I still had to run my card through the reader to get it to work.  It honestly should say in advance if it isn't going to work.<\/p>\n

One the other hand, the McDonald's app worked flawlessly this morning in Cleburn, Texas.  So I have that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am opposed to using a credit card at a gas pump.  I'm fairly sure my identity has been stolen at one at least once in my life.  Also at a hotel in west Fort Worth, and at a Chili's in North Dallas. I got spoiled on my trip to Boston, all the pumps took […]<\/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-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}