{"id":7451,"date":"2008-11-29T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/helping_the_economy.html"},"modified":"2008-11-29T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T09:44:02","slug":"helping-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/helping-the-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"Helping The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was shopping\/buying today and doing my part to help US retailers and the Chinese companies who supply them. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nI noticed the mall was as packed as any Black Friday but the high-end retailers seemed slower than last year. Also, gadgets seem hotter than just about everything else based on the crowds.<br \/>\nThere may be less bags in shopper&#8217;s hands but it is tough to tell.<br \/>\nIt is fair to say it would be difficult to know  the economy is slow based on yesterday&#8217;s shopping traffic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/images\/12279698411.jpg\" alt=\"12279698411.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was shopping\/buying today and doing my part to help US retailers and the Chinese companies who supply them. \ud83d\ude09 I noticed the mall was as packed as any Black Friday but the high-end retailers seemed slower than last year. Also, gadgets seem hotter than just about everything else based on the crowds. There<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}