{"id":48,"date":"2005-06-01T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T06:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-08-06T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T23:14:06","slug":"costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/costco\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went in to Costco intending to only buy a $35 car <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optimabatteries.com\/publish\/optima\/americas0\/en\/config\/product_info\/automotive\/starter.html\">battery<\/a>, and walked out with $250 worth of shrink wrapped crap. How do they do it? Maybe it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clcookphoto.com\/seattle2002.htm\">tugboat<\/a> sized shopping carts they make you push around. <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/question200.htm\">Nature abhors a vacuum<\/a>, and a Costco shopper hates an empty shopping cart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went in to Costco intending to only buy a $35 car battery, and walked out with $250 worth of shrink wrapped crap. How do they do it? Maybe it&#8217;s the tugboat sized shopping carts they make you push around. Nature abhors a vacuum, and a Costco shopper hates an empty shopping cart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}