{"id":31972,"date":"2012-11-23T06:29:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31972"},"modified":"2012-11-23T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:29:09","slug":"in-which-i-spike-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31972","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Spike The Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I&#8217;m not one of those people who&#8217;s crabbing about the way &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; has infringed on the sanctity of holidays. \u00a0Businesspeople have to do\u00a0<em>something\u00a0<\/em>to survive the Obama economy &#8211; and it&#8217;s the job of each and every person who believes in the sanctity of holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter to lead from the front, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>But I just wanted to say that after three days of hearing about and seeing people camping out in front of Target and Best Buy waiting for Black Friday in the wind and the snow, and seeing and hearing about people battling each other in the aisles <em>last freaking night,\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;m here, on the \u00a0morning after Thanksgiving; warm, drinking coffee, having a warm bowl of oatmeal, getting ready to go to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;watching all the chumps out for Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>realize it&#8217;ll be generally cheaper later &#8211; right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I&#8217;m not one of those people who&#8217;s crabbing about the way &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; has infringed on the sanctity of holidays. \u00a0Businesspeople have to do\u00a0something\u00a0to survive the Obama economy &#8211; and it&#8217;s the job of each and every person who believes in the sanctity of holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter to lead from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31975,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972\/revisions\/31975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}