{"id":243,"date":"2006-11-24T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/25-deg-f\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:45:23","slug":"25-deg-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/25-deg-f\/","title":{"rendered":"25 deg F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/faces\/happy_very.gif\" class=\"face\" \/>I got my Wii.<\/p>\n<p>I was well prepared I think.  Armed with the knowledge that a Toys&#8217;R&#8217;Us about 25 min away had Wiis for the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29\" target=\"_bluBlog\" title=\"Wikipedia: Black Friday\">Black Friday<\/a>, I suited up in my scrubs (since I might have to go straight to work), my ski-bib, and my winter coat and gloves.  The wait at 0315 seemed like no biggie.  That was until someone made the first move to get out of his\/her car and wait at the door.  After braving 30 min in the 25 deg F cold, I was ready for my Wii.  I was 5th in line.  <img src=\"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the people outside BestBuy were nuts.  Camped out overnight since 2200 in a line wrapped around the building complete with people selling hotdogs and cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>My first game is Trauma Center: Second Opinion accompanied by Zelda and Rayman.  Score!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my Wii. I was well prepared I think. Armed with the knowledge that a Toys&#8217;R&#8217;Us about 25 min away had Wiis for the notorious Black Friday, I suited up in my scrubs (since I might have to go straight to work), my ski-bib, and my winter coat and gloves. The wait at 0315 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exciting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}