{"id":1539,"date":"2007-11-23T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2007-11-24T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T15:09:40","slug":"the-christmas-shopping-orgy-07-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Shopping Orgy &#8217;07 Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thumb-1195838483980-0p9310963197975719.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thumb-1195838483980-0p9310963197975719.jpg','popup','width=160,height=120,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thumb-1195838483980-0p9310963197975719-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Thumb 1195838483980 0P9310963197975719\" \/><\/a>As much as we love <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>, there are times when we&#8217;re not that sad to be away. One of those days is Black Friday (especially when there is no real surf). And the best place to NOT be is the mall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox6.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=946c3c96-8c7b-42d2-85e7-91689343f0ca&amp;rss=tick\" target=\"_blank\">Fox 6&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Antonio Castelan<\/strong> did a little live broadcasting from the <strong>No Fear<\/strong> store at the Carlsbad Premium Outlets to get the pulse of the mad Christmas shopping bonanza that began at midnight Friday morning. No Fear workers said their busiest time of the day so far was the midnight to 3 AM. Good, lord. People certainly are programmed to buy, buy, buy. We&#8217;re proud to say we didn&#8217;t buy one thing today. Did you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox6.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=946c3c96-8c7b-42d2-85e7-91689343f0ca&amp;rss=tick\" target=\"_blank\">Fox 6 News<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20071124-9999-1n24shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as we love Carlsbadistan, there are times when we&#8217;re not that sad to be away. One of those days is Black Friday (especially when there is no real surf). And the best place to NOT be is the mall. Fox 6&#8217;s Antonio Castelan did a little live broadcasting from the No Fear store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}