{"id":1816,"date":"2008-12-01T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/more-bad-economy\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:33:01","slug":"more-bad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/more-bad-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bad Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my earlier post, I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/11\/kids-economy.html?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">this Inc.com article<\/a>.&nbsp; The opening sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The economic crisis has kids worried about receiving fewer gifts this holiday season, according to Node Research.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Where to start on that one?&nbsp; Could this be a push poll?&nbsp; Why even do this poll?&nbsp; Are kids primarily worried about how many gifts they receive?&nbsp; Is that the purpose of Christmas?&nbsp; Would fewer gifts be traumatic?<\/p>\n<p>I could go on, but you get my point.&nbsp; I think this is borderline propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my earlier post, I give you this Inc.com article.&nbsp; The opening sentence: The economic crisis has kids worried about receiving fewer gifts this holiday season, according to Node Research. Where to start on that one?&nbsp; Could this be a push poll?&nbsp; Why even do this poll?&nbsp; Are kids primarily worried about how many gifts they receive?&nbsp; Is that the purpose of Christmas?&nbsp; Would fewer gifts be traumatic? I could go on, but you get my point.&nbsp; I think this is borderline propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[1113,1112],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ti","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->