{"id":3613,"date":"2008-11-06T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2008-11-06T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T17:16:59","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Happy (%#@^@*&#038;!!) Holidays! (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3065\/3007585293_957b7e88e5.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Caribou and Starbucks apparently think we&#8217;ve breached the Holiday season already.<\/p>\n<p>The barista behind the counter this morning offered me a sample of their <strong>holiday cookies<\/strong>. I inquired as to how they would be keeping them fresh until the holidays <em>actually arrived<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, I thought it was funny.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8230;not so much.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to the mall of late, but I can only assume they are stringing popcorn, blinking lights and tinsel all over their stores as well.<\/p>\n<p>Querry: Is this <strong>too much too soon<\/strong> or <strong>more of a good thing<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribou and Starbucks apparently think we&#8217;ve breached the Holiday season already. The barista behind the counter this morning offered me a sample of their holiday cookies. I inquired as to how they would be keeping them fresh until the holidays actually arrived&#8230; &#8230;well, I thought it was funny. He&#8230;not so much. I haven&#8217;t been to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}