{"id":393,"date":"2006-08-07T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:07:17","slug":"shopping-how-taxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/07\/shopping-how-taxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping&#8230; How Taxing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my life, yesterday, I took advantage of the &#8220;no tax&#8221; weekend and went to Opry Mills Mall &#8211; truly one of the most disturbingly over-the-top places in the universe.\u00a0 The place was packed full of people trying to save a buck.\u00a0 It was so unpleasant that it left me wondering if tax free weekend is really worth all the hulla-baloo.\u00a0 I mean, really.\u00a0 All the frightening crowds made it crystal clear to me why I had been wise to avoid malls in previous years during this weekend of wonder and made me question why I didn&#8217;t have the divine perspicacity to realize it this year.\u00a0 Needless to say, I won&#8217;t be doing it again any time soon &#8211; or ever again.\u00a0 Saving\u00a0six or seven dollars\u00a0wasn&#8217;t enough to make me ever, ever go back for more of that kind of torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my life, yesterday, I took advantage of the &#8220;no tax&#8221; weekend and went to Opry Mills Mall &#8211; truly one of the most disturbingly over-the-top places in the universe.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,86,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living","category-mental-health","category-smart-buying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}