{"id":5985,"date":"2009-11-29T20:43:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T05:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2009-11-30T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:56:01","slug":"black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5985","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at church was telling me this morning about to the mall on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29\">Black Friday<\/a>, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving. &#8220;We got to the mall at 6 a.m.,&#8221; Ms. X said enthusiastically, &#8220;and already there were no parking places left!&#8221; To me, this sounds horrible, but to Ms. X it was all a big adventure. I&#8217;m a cheap New England Yankee, I think of shopping as a pragmatic, thrifty venture:&#8211; you shop only when it is efficient to do so, and you shop as little as possible in order to spend as little money as possible. I never go shopping on Black Friday because I don&#8217;t want to waste time in traffic, and I don&#8217;t want to be tempted into buying things I neither want nor need.<\/p>\n<p>But I forget that for many Americans, shopping is an adventure, a hobby, and a sport combined;&#8211; and Black Friday is the Olympics, the Everest, the ultimate moment for the serious shopper &#8212; the moment you&#8217;ve been training for all year long. Judge not someone else&#8217;s hobby unless you want your own hobbies judged by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at church was telling me this morning about to the mall on Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving. &#8220;We got to the mall at 6 a.m.,&#8221; Ms. X said enthusiastically, &#8220;and already there were no parking places left!&#8221; To me, this sounds horrible, but to Ms. X it was all a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}