{"id":139,"date":"2018-11-25T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-11-25T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:31:34","slug":"black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/25\/black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of Black Friday does not really work if the Thursday is not a big, or perhaps the biggest, family holiday of the year; same for Cyber Monday. My personal black Friday used to be the Friday after Weiberfastnacht, the official start of street Carnival in Cologne .<\/p>\n

But, as Halloween has spread across the world, so do Black Friday and Cyber Monday. <\/p>\n

And who doesn’t like a good deal?<\/p>\n

This year my spending was quite subdued, but I used the ever-present rebates to get a toner cartridge at 15% off.<\/p>\n

And for next year, as we’re in the process of incorporating Halloween into our culture anyway, maybe we could add Dia de Muertos as well? And make All Saints a joyous occasion rather than a solemn one? Me gusta mucho!<\/p>\n

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The concept of Black Friday does not really work if the Thursday is not a big, or perhaps the biggest, family holiday of the year; same for Cyber Monday. My personal black Friday used to be the Friday after Weiberfastnacht, the official start of street Carnival in Cologne . But, as Halloween has spread across … Continue reading Black Friday<\/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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cologne","category-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-2f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}