{"id":69628,"date":"2019-01-04T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69628"},"modified":"2019-01-03T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:31:22","slug":"better-late-than-never-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69628","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park sent this to me back around Christmas Eve &#8211; and I spent most of that intervening week either on the road or on my back with the flu.   But while holidays come and go, the economy is always timely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You can judge the state of the economy by how many businesses are open Christmas Eve.<br>In bad times, you can\u2019t miss a single customer.\u00a0 You\u2019re open for business, even if it\u2019s only the owner and his wife staffing the store.<br>In good times, you can afford to take a day off and even pay your employees for no work.\u00a0 The store closes early, if it opens at all.<br>How\u2019s the economy in your neighborhood?\u00a0<\/p><cite><br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Can&#8217;t speak for Christmas Eve &#8211; I was in North Dakota, where the rules are a <em>little\u00a0<\/em>different &#8211; but I did notice I couldn&#8217;t find a place to grab a bite to eat <em>anywhere\u00a0<\/em>on New Years Day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s something to that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park sent this to me back around Christmas Eve &#8211; and I spent most of that intervening week either on the road or on my back with the flu. But while holidays come and go, the economy is always timely: You can judge the state of the economy by how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69628","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=69628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69629,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69628\/revisions\/69629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}