{"id":570,"date":"2004-08-17T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/ThatsItImWritingOffTheRetailIndustry.aspx"},"modified":"2004-08-17T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T16:18:40","slug":"thats-it-im-writing-off-the-retail-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/thats-it-im-writing-off-the-retail-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s it! I&#8217;m writing off the retail industry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Perhaps my shoes are too tight but this kind of thing really irks me:&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.harrods.com\/\">Harrods<\/A>, British department store extraordinaire, has started its Christmas shopping season.&nbsp; GAH!&nbsp; It still annoys me when I see Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving (but I&#8217;m wacky that way).&nbsp; Bring out Christmas decorations before Halloween and I fume.&nbsp; But seriously folks&#8230; Christmas shopping&nbsp;before Labor Day?!?!?!?<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;And they&#8217;re hanging their stockings!&#8221; he snarled with a sneer.<BR>&#8220;Tomorrow is Christmas! It&#8217;s practically here!&#8221;<BR>Then he growled, with his grinch fingers nervously drumming,<BR>&#8220;I MUST find a way to keep Christmas from coming!&#8221;<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps my shoes are too tight but this kind of thing really irks me:&nbsp; Harrods, British department store extraordinaire, has started its Christmas shopping season.&nbsp; GAH!&nbsp; It still annoys me when I see Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving (but I&#8217;m wacky that way).&nbsp; Bring out Christmas decorations before Halloween and I fume.&nbsp; But seriously folks&#8230; Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlelife","tag-idlelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}