{"id":1680,"date":"2013-11-29T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2013-11-29T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:26:03","slug":"another-useless-american-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/11\/another-useless-american-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Another useless American import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday is not as it sounds, an evil day, but a day on which shops have a one day sale.<br \/>\nNo shop is in fact saving anyone any money. They are blinding people with smoke and mirrors to persuade them that that useless electronic gizmo with worth a lot more than they want you to pay for it, and much cheaper than yesterday.<br \/>\nIts all a pack of lies. The yanks, being much better piers than us, should keep this lie to themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday is not as it sounds, an evil day, but a day on which shops have a one day sale. No shop is in fact saving anyone any money. They are blinding people with smoke and mirrors to persuade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/11\/another-useless-american-import\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-r6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/06\/another-useless-mega-million-pound-monument\/","url_meta":{"origin":1680,"position":0},"title":"Another Useless Mega Million Pound Monument","author":"taxicle","date":"June 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Right in time for the Olympics, a cable car has opened across the Thames. 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