{"id":130,"date":"2007-11-23T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:13:22","slug":"black-friday-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday consumerism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have any grand ideas to spend any money today.  For one, I had to work, which makes it rather difficult to shop.  Second, nothing jumped out at me as a &#8220;must have.&#8221;  I looked at the Circuit City and Best Buy ads online yesterday, and didn&#8217;t see anything I really wanted.  I want to buy a large, internal hard drive, to put into an old computer.  But just about every hard drive that was on sale today was an external drive.  Nevertheless, I wound up going to Best Buy on my way home from work tonight.  I wanted to look at an HDTV (that&#8217;s another story).  I started thinking about memory cards for my phone, because I ran out of room while trying to take a picture last night (I transferred all of my photos from my old phone).  I found a 1 GB microSD card for around $20.  Not a bad deal.  Then I saw a 2 GB card on sale for $19.99.  Much better deal!  I decided to see if there were better deals elsewhere, and it turned out that Staples had the same thing for $17.98.  So I headed over to Staples, saved a few bucks over Best Buy, and now I can take a lot more photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have any grand ideas to spend any money today. For one, I had to work, which makes it rather difficult to shop. Second, nothing jumped out at me as a &#8220;must have.&#8221; I looked at the Circuit City and Best Buy ads online yesterday, and didn&#8217;t see anything I really wanted. I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,23,31],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nablopomo","tag-phone","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}