{"id":37503,"date":"2013-07-26T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37503"},"modified":"2013-07-26T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:35:18","slug":"retail-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37503","title":{"rendered":"Retail Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a friend of mine in the retail business the other day. She works at a store in Uptown Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minnesota leftybloggers must be working on stories about a vaguely sexual scandal involving a conservative woman&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221;, I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I can&#8217;t keep Jergens or paper towles in stock&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what she meant.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It <em>is<\/em> amazing, though, how the party of &#8220;It&#8217;s Just Sex!&#8221; and &#8220;Moooooove on!&#8221; turns as puritanical as a Pentecostal choir (and yet as giggly and prurient and onanistic as a bunch of ninth-grade boys who just saw the homecoming queen in a two-piece swim suit) when the subject is a conservative black, latino, Asian, or a woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As usual, everything you need to know about liberal behavior is found in Berg&#8217;s Law &#8211; in this case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Eighth Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a friend of mine in the retail business the other day. She works at a store in Uptown Minneapolis. &#8220;Minnesota leftybloggers must be working on stories about a vaguely sexual scandal involving a conservative woman&#8221; she said. &#8220;Why?&#8221;, I asked. &#8220;Because I can&#8217;t keep Jergens or paper towles in stock&#8221;. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,51],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-37503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-bergs-8th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503","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=37503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503\/revisions\/37521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}