The holiday season is upon us and that means one thing — celebration of religion. Oh wait, that’s not it. The one thing is, of course, honoring family and tradition. No, that’s not right either.<\/p>\n
I remember now. The holiday season means one thing above all else — shopping.<\/p>\n
It occurred to me that some of you might be stopping by our friends at Amazon.com<\/a> to buy some gifts. I mention this because it would be a great help to your friend, Carpetbagger, if you used the handy-dandy Amazon link<\/a> located conveniently below the blog roll on the left. Just click on the handsome, white box there and you’ll be magically whisked away to Amazon<\/a>, where you can buy lots of fun stuff. It won’t cost you anything extra and it’ll give me a hand. <\/p>\n Some of you have already taken advantage of this and I sincerely appreciate it.<\/p>\n That’s my one little crass commercial. Forgive me. And now, back to the news…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The holiday season is upon us and that means one thing — celebration of religion. Oh wait, that’s not it. The one thing is, of course, honoring family and tradition. No, that’s not right either. I remember now. The holiday season means one thing above all else — shopping. It occurred to me that some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}