{"id":471,"date":"2006-07-18T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2006\/07\/18\/the-ultimate-american-consumer\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T05:14:31","slug":"the-ultimate-american-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2006\/07\/the-ultimate-american-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ultimate American Consumer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what John Tran called me once. Tonight, I once again lived up to that sobriquet .  On the way home from Anne&#8217;s (after a great dinner with Webb and Christy at El Patio, followed by watching the idiosyncratic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0328390\/\">Second Best <\/a>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001592\/\">Joe Pantoliano<\/a>), I stopped at Walgreen&#8217;s (to get some antacid to deal with the effects of the aforementioned great dinner).  In the middle of the store they had a bin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/store\/product.jsp?id=prod1482922\">mens dress socks<\/a> for $1\/pair.  I bought five pairs.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, come see <a href=\"http:\/\/islandetc.org\/\">my show.<\/a>  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.galvestondailynews.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=f1633a42cdc9429ebedfec4d58cd9916\">pretty good<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what John Tran called me once. Tonight, I once again lived up to that sobriquet . On the way home from Anne&#8217;s (after a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-7B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}