{"id":174,"date":"2007-11-17T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2007-11-17T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T05:30:14","slug":"tree-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/tree-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree financing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were in a local big-box department store yesterday, and we saw a 9-foot plastic Christmas tree offered for–<\/p>\n

— Are you sitting down?–
\n
\nFour hundred<\/strong> and fifty-nine dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n

For molded plastic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Okay, sure, if the tree could do my Christmas shopping for me, I’d consider it. It might even be a bargain. <\/p>\n

But no, the thing just sits there, sadly, trying to convince the world that it’s worth the ticketed price, and knowing full well that it’s not.<\/p>\n

(Insert your favorite Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton joke here, if desired.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were in a local big-box department store yesterday, and we saw a 9-foot plastic Christmas tree offered for– — Are you sitting down?– Four hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For molded plastic. Okay, sure, if the tree could do my Christmas shopping for me, I’d consider it. It might even be a bargain. But no, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}