{"id":103137,"date":"2009-12-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-4464408992513376060"},"modified":"2009-12-26T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T14:41:43","slug":"amazon-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/103137","title":{"rendered":"Amazon holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s getting hard for me to remember pre-Amazon. I know I bought books in the first few months of operation, when that was all they sold.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For our children, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> is eternal. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This holiday the Amazon boxes made one heck of a pile. Between the things we bought and Amazon gift certs from aunts and uncles the store in the cloud provided over 80% of the kid stuff (including things like the <a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2009\/11\/family-telescope-orion-dobsonian-or.html\">scope<\/a> that came from Orion via the Amazon storefront).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re clearly not typical of anything, but I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how they did against the competition (though I expect nobody did great this year).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Incidentally, one fringe benefit of Amazon is that the gifts are concealed. Prying eyes are much less of a problem.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PS. Not that Amazon is perfect. In theory you can cancel mistaken orders even after they&#8217;ve been placed. In practice that doesn&#8217;t work for affiliates, the orders still get processed. I didn&#8217;t say I <i>loved<\/i> Amazon.<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-4464408992513376060?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting hard for me to remember pre-Amazon. I know I bought books in the first few months of operation, when that was all they sold. For our children, Amazon is eternal. This holiday the Amazon boxes made one heck of a pile. Between the things we bought and Amazon gift certs from aunts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}