{"id":20613,"date":"2013-11-30T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20613"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T22:16:55","slug":"last-man-standing-promises-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-promises-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Promises, Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mikebrady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20623\" alt=\"mikebrady\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mikebrady-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mikebrady-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mikebrady.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve stepped out to the sales. Maybe shopping is the best way to work off a Thanksgiving food coma, but I&#8217;d prefer sitting around and reveling in it. Besides, do those promises of a discount, free shipping, or a ginsu knife, make the crowds worth it? Who needs football when you can just go to your local Big Box store for some offensive and defensive action?<\/p>\n<p>Sales? Gimmicks? Americans love to save money. In the spirit of this, let&#8217;s come up with songs that reflect, in the immortal words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/shows\/the-brady-bunch\/the-wheeler-dealer-4916\/\">Mike Brady<\/a>, &#8220;<strong>Caveat emptor<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can think of two. What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve stepped out to the sales. Maybe shopping is the best way to work off a Thanksgiving food coma, but I&#8217;d prefer sitting around and reveling in it. Besides, do those promises of a discount, free shipping, or a ginsu knife, make the crowds worth it? Who needs football when you <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-promises-promises\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}