{"id":20053,"date":"2008-11-27T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/11\/27\/welcome-to-the-2008-holiday-shopping-season\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T10:00:01","slug":"welcome-to-the-2008-holiday-shopping-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081127-01\/?p=20053","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the 2008 holiday shopping season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Yes, maybe you&#8217;re one of those crazy people who camps out in front of a store so you can be the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/293681_shopping25.html\"> first person in line<\/a> to get this year&#8217;s hot toy, or so you can snag one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doorbuster\"> doorbuster<\/a> deals. But be judicious in your rush, because <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004031186_webtroopers23m.html\"> the police are out there too, and they&#8217;re shopping for something else<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, maybe you&#8217;re one of those crazy people who camps out in front of a store so you can be the first person in line to get this year&#8217;s hot toy, or so you can snag one of the doorbuster deals. But be judicious in your rush, because the police are out there too, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Yes, maybe you&#8217;re one of those crazy people who camps out in front of a store so you can be the first person in line to get this year&#8217;s hot toy, or so you can snag one of the doorbuster deals. But be judicious in your rush, because the police are out there too, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}