{"id":1306,"date":"2004-11-29T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/no_shopping_yet\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:31:03","slug":"no_shopping_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/no_shopping_yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No Shopping Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still pondering the plight of my Christmas spirit.  It&#8217;s said that as a person ages, time seems to pass more quickly.  Perhaps that&#8217;s a simple explanation of things; it gets harder to keep pace with the &#8220;faster&#8221; moving seasons.  That might be part of it.<br \/>\nAt any rate, I&#8217;m moving slower than many into Christmas.  No decorations up yet.  Nor was I among the 45% of Americans who participated in the Thanksgiving weekend shopping frenzy.  Of course I&#8217;m not much of a shopper to begin with.  So the &#8220;crowded stores&#8221; excuse works well for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/no_shopping_yet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to No Shopping Yet\"><p>I&#8217;m still pondering the plight of my Christmas spirit. It&#8217;s said that as a person ages, time seems to pass more quickly. Perhaps that&#8217;s a simple explanation of things; it gets harder to keep pace with the &#8220;faster&#8221; moving seasons. That might be part of it. At any rate, I&#8217;m moving slower than many into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}