{"id":9,"date":"2006-05-09T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-05-19T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T21:30:08","slug":"suuuuper-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/suuuuper-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Suuuuper Target!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was already tired and well shopped-out when we realized that the 10% discount wasn&#8217;t just for the first purchase on the card, but the first day.  We could still make another trip and get the discount.<\/p>\n<p>So, at about 6:30, we unloaded the car and headed back to Target: did I mention that it is a &#8220;Super Target&#8221; that&#8217;s bigger than a regular Target (like a Walmart Supercenter)?<\/p>\n<p>We needed bikes: it&#8217;s a very bike-accessible town, the buses aren&#8217;t great on the weekend, and we want to avoid buying a car.  We don&#8217;t need quality, since they only really have to not fall apart for a couple of years of commuting.  So, cheap &#8220;real&#8221; bikes at $300 weren&#8217;t worth it.  To Target and the sub-$150 price point.<\/p>\n<p>We ended up buying two bikes, a back-seat full of groceries, and some rope.  Why rope?  Two bikes don&#8217;t fit in the Kia Rio we rented.  We had to take off the front tire and awkwardly tie the rest into the trunk.  Of course, we didn&#8217;t have a knife, and about 50 feet of rope, so it took some time: 20 minutes in a Target parking lot, trying to secure them.<\/p>\n<p>We returned and after all this, finally got into the new apartment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was already tired and well shopped-out when we realized that the 10% discount wasn&#8217;t just for the first purchase on the card, but the first day. We could still make another trip and get the discount. So, at about 6:30, we unloaded the car and headed back to Target: did I mention that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}