{"id":662,"date":"2008-02-22T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/22\/let-levi-market\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:53:22","slug":"let-levi-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/22\/let-levi-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Levi . . . market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, for any of you tempted to sign onto the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/article\/72252\">grassroots<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/letleviride.com\/\">LetLeviRide.com<\/a> petition, I&#8217;ll point out that the domain is owned by Trek Bicycles, Inc.\u00c2\u00a0 You &#8220;sign&#8221; the petition with only your e-mail address.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, nothing on the site indicates that Trek owns it or states what will be done with your email address.\u00c2\u00a0  But I would be shocked &#8211; <em>shocked<\/em>, I tell you &#8211; if it resulted in the biggest email marketing list that Trek has ever compiled.<\/p>\n<p>Nice stealth marketing move, Trek.<\/p>\n<p>(For my non-pro-cycling-interested readers.\u00c2\u00a0 I first tried to write up a bit of background on this, so it would make some sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Given that the controversy itself makes no sense, however, I&#8217;ll just leave it at offering up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/article\/72000\">this link<\/a>, which should take you down the rabbit hole that pro cycling has become.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, for any of you tempted to sign onto the &#8220;grassroots&#8221; LetLeviRide.com petition, I&#8217;ll point out that the domain is owned by Trek Bicycles, Inc.\u00c2\u00a0 You &#8220;sign&#8221; the petition with only your e-mail address.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, nothing on the site indicates that Trek owns it or states what will be done with your email address.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}