{"id":252,"date":"2004-12-17T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathodavid.malibulist.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2004-12-17T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T13:32:37","slug":"its-beginning-to-feel-a-lot-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/17\/its-beginning-to-feel-a-lot-like\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beginning to feel a lot like&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent part of yesterday tying up some loose ends of shopping for various and sundry. Ariel needed a few things for friends for a gift exchange. I figured if I went in the morning on a Thursday there would not be that many people around. Wrong! Any and all stores I went to were packed and the lines were long. I did get good service at the electronics store I went to for some additional disks for the DVD camcorder. I could see that the sales people were trying to help people as quickly as possible and passing others onto the next free sales person so no one had to stand around for a long period of time. I do know that the salesmen supplement their income with commission but you could tell they were making a concerted effort to get to everyone. If you knew what you wanted, they took you there and sold you want you needed. If you needed help with all the choices, you were handed off to the persons in that section to help you. There were a number of older citizens in there shopping. The first electronic store I went into was one of the large chains stores that was no help what so ever so I went to the other and got what I needed in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went onto the bookstore for the stuff for Ariel. They had a big sign for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent part of yesterday tying up some loose ends of shopping for various and sundry. Ariel needed a few things for friends for a gift exchange. I figured if I went in the morning on a Thursday there would not be that many people around. Wrong! Any and all stores I went to were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}