{"id":1559,"date":"2013-10-11T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T04:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2016-08-06T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:54:49","slug":"furlough-freebies-and-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/furlough-freebies-and-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Furlough Freebies (and discounts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Friday October 11th and I&#8217;ve been furloughed due to the government shutdown for 9 days and counting. \u00a0I shouldn&#8217;t complain because I&#8217;m getting a lot of tasks done and I&#8217;m also having some fun and also because there is a decent chance that Congress will give all the furloughed workers back-pay when this is all over.<\/p>\n<p>But living without paychecks can be a bit of a burden for some. \u00a0Okay, for most. \u00a0Well, I&#8217;ve noticed that there are a number of businesses out there that are offering deals specifically to furloughed government employees. \u00a0Here is a list. \u00a0I will add to this list as I find out about more. \u00a0Please leave a comment or email me for additions or corrections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurantnews.com\/boston-market-offers-free-chicken-to-federal-employees-and-military-personnel-affected-by-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Market restaurants (460 locations nationwide) are offering a free whole chicken with the purchase of a family meal. Offer extends from October 6th through October 13th.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/news\/1287\" target=\"_blank\">SparkFun Electronics (online\/everywhere) is offering a free starter kit to furloughed government workers to give us something to do with our spare time. Offer extends through October 25th or until the furlough ends.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/02\/showbiz\/movies\/government-shutdown-free-popcorn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">AMC Theaters (nationwide, but none on the space coast) are offering a free small popcorn or a discount on a larger size. Offer extends through the end of the shutdown.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscfcu.org\/home\/images\/stories\/pdf\/gov_shutdown_loan2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">KSC Federal Credit Union (13 Central Florida locations) is offering an interest free loan of two weeks worth of your salary. <\/a><\/li>\n<li>TD Bank (nationwide) is offering a free $1,000 overdraft and late fee forgiveness. Offer extends through November 2nd or end of shutdown. (link disappeared from Internet, sorry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to everyone for reaching out and helping,<br \/>\nKurt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markevanstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/free.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markevanstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/free.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Friday October 11th and I&#8217;ve been furloughed due to the government shutdown for 9 days and counting. \u00a0I shouldn&#8217;t complain because I&#8217;m getting a lot of tasks done and I&#8217;m also having some fun and also because there is a decent chance that Congress will give all the furloughed workers back-pay when this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[488,486,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}