{"id":790,"date":"2009-11-26T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=790"},"modified":"2022-02-26T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T01:07:23","slug":"happy-turkey-day-2009-black-friday-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/26\/happy-turkey-day-2009-black-friday-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Turkey Day 2009 \/ Black Friday Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-135.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-791\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-135.png 750w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-135-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who are not from the U.S. here is a quick explanation of what Black Friday Shopping is &#8211; on the Friday after Thanksgiving all retailers begin their annual Christmas shopping season, and everyone tries to lure shoppers to their store by announcing limited quantity, too-good-to-be-true deals (like $199 for a brand new laptop, or $250 for a 42&#8243; LCD HDTV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally people get in line days before opening day on Friday to be the first in the door (usually at 5:00 or 6:00 a.m.) to get the deal. Me? You&#8217;ll never find me at one of these lines. I love sleep too much to wake up in the middle of the night for these deals, and there is really nothing that I want right now that would warrant getting in line for (maybe a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.up2daterealestate.com\/2008\/08\/07\/pasadena-median-home-price-history\/\">great deal on a house in L.A.<\/a>, and that&#8217;s a BIG MAYBE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So since my brother Philip is in town we decided to go shopping at one of my current favorite retailer tonight &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bananarepublic.gap.com\/?\">Banana Republic<\/a>, only to be notified that EVERYTHING AT THAT SPECIFIC STORE IS 50% OFF. Hmmm. What happened to Black Friday? It is only Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess Black Friday comes early in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditwritedowns.com\/2008\/10\/is-state-of-california-bankrupt.html\">bad economic times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I did some crazy shopping at the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are not from the U.S. here is a quick explanation of what Black Friday Shopping is &#8211; on the Friday after Thanksgiving all retailers begin their annual Christmas shopping season, and everyone tries to lure shoppers to their store by announcing limited quantity, too-good-to-be-true deals (like $199 for a brand new laptop,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-135.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}