{"id":931,"date":"2009-01-20T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=931"},"modified":"2009-01-20T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:14:59","slug":"acme-closed-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2009\/01\/acme-closed-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Acme closed tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Kevin Callaghan at Acme:<\/p>\n<p>    <em>&#8220;I know. I know. People in the South can&#8217;t handle the snow. But it&#8217;s not my fault. It is true that I&#8217;m fine with solely viewing bucolic winter landscapes on the TV. Or in a magazine. Really. And that aside from snowcream and that initial sled ride, there&#8217;s not much to icy precipitation that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. But the truth is that Acme will be closed tonight solely because we&#8217;re being practical. We know that all of you have bought cartons and cartons of milk and loads of bread and tomato soup. And we certainly don&#8217;t want that to go to waste. And what about all those Crock Pots simmering away. And those promises of pizza delivery. And, I bet, more than a few of you rented some movies&#8230; So, I don&#8217;t want you to think that I&#8217;m out building a snowman or participating in any other frivolous wintry outdoor activity. We&#8217;re just being practical &#8211; and waiting for all this chilly, white stuff to melt. By the way, $12.95 Tuesdays will be back next week.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Kevin Callaghan at Acme: &#8220;I know. I know. People in the South can&#8217;t handle the snow. But it&#8217;s not my fault. It is true that I&#8217;m fine with solely viewing bucolic winter landscapes on the TV. Or in a magazine. Really. And that aside from snowcream and that initial sled ride, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}