{"id":390,"date":"2007-02-01T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-02-01T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T21:51:26","slug":"strange-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/strange-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Business&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those things that I&#8217;ve wondered about for quite some time and just can&#8217;t figure out&#8230;&#8230;  You would think that the biggest business&#8217;s in Oklahoma would be in horses, cattle, or oil production, but, it would appear not&#8230;..  Almost every other commercial on local TV and radio stations are from new car dealerships and new furniture outlets&#8230;&#8230;  I think we have more of both in Oklahoma City alone than in Seattle and New York combined&#8230;..  Just how many new cars and expensive furniture does a person buy in a lifetime?&#8230;&#8230;  I personally have only purchased one new car in my lifetime and that was &#8220;way back when&#8221; they were reasonably priced&#8230;&#8230;..  It would seem that the market would dissipate in a short time with the overabundance of suppliers and the high cost of a new vehicle or a quality piece of furniture.  A person would not tend to replace such an expensive item on a regular basis&#8230;&#8230;  Apparently they do with all the money the dealers sink into advertisement and promotions&#8230;..  Or do they?&#8230;..  I wonder if they are just a front for some other strange business ventures?&#8230;.  Just a thought&#8230;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those things that I&#8217;ve wondered about for quite some time and just can&#8217;t figure out&#8230;&#8230; You would think that the biggest business&#8217;s in Oklahoma would be in horses, cattle, or oil production, but, it would appear not&#8230;.. Almost every other commercial on local TV and radio stations are from new car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}