{"id":1315,"date":"2013-07-07T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-07-07T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T14:16:33","slug":"sunday-7-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/07\/07\/sunday-7-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 7 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:16 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> One of the items on my to-do list was to buy an HD camcorder to use in shooting more of the science videos I used to post on YouTube. One must-have feature was a microphone input, which is surprisingly rare on consumer-grade camcorders. I can&#8217;t stand the audio from on-camera microphones, so I&#8217;ll always use either a shotgun or a wireless lavaliere. Doing that requires a mic input.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So yesterday I got a promo email from Costco that featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Canon-HF-R400-HD-Camcorder-Bundle.product.100042449.html\">Canon HF R400 HD Camcorder Bundle<\/a> (with case and 16 GB memory card) for $290 after a $70 rebate. Today is the last day of the promo. I checked Amazon, and their price was higher for the bare camcorder. I checked Canon, and the HF R400 HD camcorder does have a microphone input. So I just ordered the camcorder bundle from Costco. Imagine my surprise when I added it to my cart and found out that the price wasn&#8217;t $290 after the $70 rebate. It was $290 before the $70 rebate. So I ended up paying $220 plus tax, with free shipping.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:16 &#8211; One of the items on my to-do list was to buy an HD camcorder to use in shooting more of the science videos I used to post on YouTube. One must-have feature was a microphone input, which is surprisingly rare on consumer-grade camcorders. I can&#8217;t stand the audio from on-camera microphones, so I&#8217;ll always use either a shotgun or a wireless lavaliere. Doing that requires a mic input.\n<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday I got a promo email from Costco that featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Canon-HF-R400-HD-Camcorder-Bundle.product.100042449.html\">Canon HF R400 HD Camcorder Bundle<\/a> (with case and 16 GB memory card) for $290 after a $70 rebate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/07\/07\/sunday-7-july-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 7 July 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}