{"id":237,"date":"2008-12-01T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T14:33:38","slug":"black-friday-day-of-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday &#8211; Day of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday &#8211; Day of Mourning&#8230; why?\u00a0 It shows just how materialistic America is.\u00a0 Here are just a couple of stories I ran across on Digg.com:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/11\/shots-were-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">2 shot dead at Toys R Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/11\/28\/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html\" target=\"_blank\">Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, just to get some sort of &#8220;deal&#8221; 3 people in the stories above had to die&#8230; I am sure these aren&#8217;t the only stories from &#8220;Black Friday.&#8221;\u00a0 This sort of behavior is pure EVIL.\u00a0 Thus, is why I do not and will not participate in it.\u00a0 I can participate on it online because at least it is safe&#8230; I don&#8217;t have to worry about losing my life over something so not important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday &#8211; Day of Mourning&#8230; why?\u00a0 It shows just how materialistic America is.\u00a0 Here are just a couple of stories I ran across on Digg.com: 2 shot dead at Toys R Us Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}