{"id":340,"date":"2009-11-27T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:17:02","slug":"time-for-a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/time-for-a-new-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a New Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341\" title=\"stuffed_uncle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/stuffed_uncle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"396\" \/><strong>Well, today&#8217;s the big day.<\/strong> Will this year&#8217;s receipt totals prove that our economy is finally on the mend? Personally, I don&#8217;t partake in the consumerist hysteria surrounding Black Friday. Yes, I realize there are great deals out there. Yes, I know that shopping is synonomous with the holiday season. No, I&#8217;m not against capitalism. I just don&#8217;t get supercharged about rising hours before the sun to feed the gluttonous idea of a materialistic Christmas. It seems that every year, the lists are longer, the budgets more bloated and still nobody&#8217;s any happier than they were the year before. In the process people simply end up over-extending themselves financially (isn&#8217;t that what kicked off our recession troubles to begin with?). Knowing full well that we don&#8217;t really <em>need<\/em> anything (or have the space to put any of it) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve decided to spend half of what we did on Christmas last year and give the other half to a local charity<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know that it will be a huge hit with our kids, but I think there&#8217;s a valuable lesson to be learned. Besides, I kind of thought Uncle Sam needed to lose a few pounds anyway, so I&#8217;m really not seeing the need for a big piece of cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today&#8217;s the big day. Will this year&#8217;s receipt totals prove that our economy is finally on the mend? Personally, I don&#8217;t partake in the consumerist hysteria surrounding Black Friday. Yes, I realize there are great deals out there. Yes, I know that shopping is synonomous with the holiday season. No, I&#8217;m not against capitalism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[101,11,16],"tags":[102,103],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-holidays","category-finances","category-holidays","tag-black-friday","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}