{"id":87,"date":"2026-09-04T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/2026\/09\/small-claims-big-lessons-a-month-on-the-consumer-desk\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:33:57","slug":"small-claims-big-lessons-a-month-on-the-consumer-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/2026\/09\/small-claims-big-lessons-a-month-on-the-consumer-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Small claims, big lessons: a month on the consumer desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readers sent 214 complaints this month. Twelve became stories, three became refunds, and one became an apology from a utility company.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corrections and tips are welcome \u2014 the desk reads everything and answers what it can.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you tried it yourself? Tell me in the comments \u2014 I read everything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers sent 214 complaints this month. Twelve became stories, three became refunds, and one became an apology from a utility company. Corrections and tips are welcome \u2014 the desk reads everything and answers what it can. Have you tried it yourself? Tell me in the comments \u2014 I read everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,8],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-life","tag-collect","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a.web.vk.al\/portal-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}