{"id":872,"date":"2004-04-21T20:21:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T00:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/walmart_blog\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T00:21:50","slug":"walmart_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/walmart_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_04\/003746.php\">Political Animal<\/a>, I see there&#8217;s now a <a href=\"http:\/\/alwayslowprices.blogspot.com\/\">Wal-Mart blog<\/a> up: &#8220;The Best and the Worst about Wal-Mart.&#8221;<br \/>\nI shop at Wal-Mart.  It&#8217;s the closest store to home, and there&#8217;s also that low price thing going for it.  One thing that strikes me about shopping there (apart from its low wages and imports from China) is the frequency I enter the store and see short check-out lines, yet by the time I head back to the aforementioned lines myself they&#8217;ve magically grown much, much longer.<br \/>\nOkay, maybe it just seems that way, but I do find it odd how customers have to wait in line sometimes given all the employees they have roaming about there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/walmart_blog\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wal-Mart Blog\"><p>Via Political Animal, I see there&#8217;s now a Wal-Mart blog up: &#8220;The Best and the Worst about Wal-Mart.&#8221; I shop at Wal-Mart. It&#8217;s the closest store to home, and there&#8217;s also that low price thing going for it. One thing that strikes me about shopping there (apart from its low wages and imports from China) [&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-872","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\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}