{"id":5839,"date":"2022-05-28T09:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/alexa-why-have-you-charged-me-2-to-say-the-hail-mary\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:36:01","slug":"alexa-why-have-you-charged-me-2-to-say-the-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/alexa-why-have-you-charged-me-2-to-say-the-hail-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa, why have you charged me \u00a32 to say the Hail Mary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Collinson, 87, unwittingly ordered an Amazon subscription for app to say a prayer<\/p>\n<p>When my 87-year-old mother, Patricia Collinson, was given an Alexa speaker by my sister, she was delighted to find she could ask it to say the Hail Mary. Every morning for a week the devout Catholic asked Alexa to recite the prayer.<\/p>\n<p>What she was less delighted to learn was that she had unwittingly ordered a premium subscription payable through Amazon to a private company called Catholic Prayers. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2022\/may\/28\/alexa-daily-prayers-voice-command-amazon-subscription\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/43e1f82229fbe09d15f43be9721e730e329980cd\/0_1263_3096_1858\/master\/3096.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=666bee02d307945169ceb657034eac12\" title=\"Alexa, why have you charged me \u00a32 to say the Hail Mary?\" \/>Patricia Collinson, 87, unwittingly ordered an Amazon subscription for app to say a prayer<br \/>\nWhen my 87-year-old mother, Patricia Collinson, was given an Alexa speaker by my sister, she was delighted to find she could ask it to say the Hail Mary. Every morning for a week the devout Catholic asked Alexa to recite the prayer.<br \/>\nWhat she was less delighted to learn was that she had unwittingly ordered a premium subscription payable through Amazon to a private company called Catholic Prayers.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Collinson, 87, unwittingly ordered an Amazon subscription for app to say a prayer When my 87-year-old mother, Patricia Collinson, was given an Alexa speaker by my sister, she was delighted to find she could ask it to say the Hail Mary. Every morning for a week the devout Catholic asked Alexa to recite the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/28\/alexa-why-have-you-charged-me-2-to-say-the-hail-mary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexa, why have you charged me \u00a32 to say the Hail Mary?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}