{"id":1225,"date":"2012-12-03T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelgreenlief.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:53:49","slug":"great-tv-commercials-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2012\/12\/03\/great-tv-commercials-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Great TV Commercials This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the advertisers have really stepped up the TV commercials so they can get as much of our Christmas shopping money as possible. I have really noticed an increase in car commercials &#8211; every brand, but especially the luxury cars like Lexus. <\/p>\n<p>Here is what I don&#8217;t understand. How many people really think that buying a car for their loved one is a good Christmas gift? How many people really can do that anyway? Wouldn&#8217;t that be a once in a lifetime kind of thing for anyone but the most wealthy, privileged family? <\/p>\n<p>I can tell you that even though my parents were financially successful, buying a car as a gift was never ever something anyone in my family would ever consider. It&#8217;s just not done. My parents will spend a lot of money on great Christmas gifts, but a car is a practical item that is handled separately from gifts. It really does not matter how many nice car commercials they show in December, I will not be buying a new car for anyone as a Christmas gift. It will never happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the advertisers have really stepped up the TV commercials so they can get as much of our Christmas shopping money as possible. I have really noticed an increase in car commercials &#8211; every brand, but especially the luxury cars like Lexus. Here is what I don&#8217;t understand. How many people really think that buying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2012\/12\/03\/great-tv-commercials-this-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great TV Commercials This Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,18],"tags":[34,43,77,140],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family","category-holidays","category-shopping-2","tag-car","tag-commercial","tag-gift","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}