{"id":443,"date":"2008-11-28T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-11-28T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T08:34:38","slug":"happy-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Happy Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So to review, it&#8217;s &#8220;black&#8221; because that&#8217;s the day that retailers actually make a profit. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In November. \u00c2\u00a0After selling crap all year. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in order to do so, they have to cut prices even further&#8230; well, maybe. \u00c2\u00a0They certainly charge less today than other days, whether it&#8217;s a real price cut or not is still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>But in any case, I just purchased the following in AMAZON.COM&#8217;s Black Friday sale:<\/p>\n<p>Sony STR-DG520 5.1 Audio Video Receiver $169<br \/>\nThe Hulk (Blu-Ray disc) $15<br \/>\nIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Blu-Ray disc) $17<br \/>\nStar Wars &#8211; Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) (DVD) $15<br \/>\n(some gifts for the kids&#8230; not posting them here)<br \/>\nGlobal Distinctions Buy-One-Get-One-Free Ottoman Set, Black ($40)<\/p>\n<p>All told I spent about $300 bucks this Black Friday. \u00c2\u00a0I hope the economy appreciates it, as I&#8217;m done spending. \u00c2\u00a0How&#8217;d you do this holiday season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So to review, it&#8217;s &#8220;black&#8221; because that&#8217;s the day that retailers actually make a profit. \u00c2\u00a0 In November. \u00c2\u00a0After selling crap all year. \u00c2\u00a0 And in order to do so, they have to cut prices even further&#8230; well, maybe. \u00c2\u00a0They certainly charge less today than other days, whether it&#8217;s a real price cut or not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}