{"id":80302,"date":"2021-12-16T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80302"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:48:51","slug":"when-making-your-christmas-shopping-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80302","title":{"rendered":"When Making Your Christmas Shopping Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t always follow boycotts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of it is that most of the companies I <em>want <\/em>to boycott over recent transgressions, I shopped shopping at years ago over previous ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:  I stopped patronizing Pepsi, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut back in the &#8217;90s, when they were donating big bank to gun control groups.   Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods became <em>traef <\/em>to me when they pulled &#8220;modern sporting rifles&#8221; from their shelves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for those who are new to the business of shopping with purpose, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/kevindowneyjr\/2021\/12\/15\/santas-list-of-businesses-who-are-naughty-and-nice-to-conservatives-n1541824\">at least the start of some holiday Naught and Nice lists<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always follow boycotts. Part of it is that most of the companies I want to boycott over recent transgressions, I shopped shopping at years ago over previous ones. Example: I stopped patronizing Pepsi, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut back in the &#8217;90s, when they were donating big bank to gun control groups. Dick&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80302","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=80302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80303,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80302\/revisions\/80303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}