{"id":703,"date":"2008-11-29T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2008-11-29T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T15:57:29","slug":"t-day-2-c-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/t-day-2-c-day-26\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Day +2 &#8211; C-Day -26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;..  The countdown has officially begun&#8230;&#8230;  We&#8217;re already two days past <strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong>, and, only 26 days away from <strong>Christmas<\/strong> (add +7 if you want to skip <strong>Christmas<\/strong> and go directly to celebrating <strong>New Years<\/strong> &#8211; Hic!)&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>People never fail to amaze me&#8230;&#8230;.  On the sad side, I heard a <em>Walmart<\/em> employee was trampled to death upon opening the doors by crazed shoppers, and, three people were shot when a employee at a <em>Toys-R-Us<\/em> attempted to breakup an argument between customers&#8230;&#8230;  They said it might have been gang related?&#8230;&#8230;  Anyone out there know any gang members who shop at <em>Toys-R-Us<\/em>?&#8230;&#8230;.  If I were a gang member, I don&#8217;t think I would want it known that I hung out at <em>Toys-R-Us<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  Maybe that&#8217;s why they were shooting at each other &#8211; fighting over a copy of <strong>&#8220;Resident Evil 4&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;Guitar Heroes&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;.. It&#8217;s a crazy World out there and it no longer belongs to <em>Arthur Brown<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  It might be advisable to get a concealed weapons permit before you go shopping this year, just to be on the safer side&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>To all the wonderful people I know, please remember it&#8217;s the THOUGHT that counts (I hope they buy this line, as I am, like most this year, running tight &#8211; so the presents will be light)&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So-o-o-o, happy shopping and <strong>&#8220;<em>Happy Holler-days<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> to everyone&#8230;..  The &#8220;Hollering&#8221; starts when the charges start rolling in from the melted plastic you used to buy all those presents&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;.. The countdown has officially begun&#8230;&#8230; We&#8217;re already two days past Thanksgiving, and, only 26 days away from Christmas (add +7 if you want to skip Christmas and go directly to celebrating New Years &#8211; Hic!)&#8230;&#8230;. People never fail to amaze me&#8230;&#8230;. On the sad side, I heard a Walmart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}