{"id":1580,"date":"2013-12-21T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2013-12-21T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T15:11:01","slug":"saturday-21-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/21\/saturday-21-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 21 December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:16 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> With Christmas so near, kit orders have tapered off a lot. We shipped only three kits yesterday and have only one outstanding order so far today. Orders should pick up again the week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day, presumably because people have Christmas money to spend. Last December we did about 25% of the month&#8217;s business in that period. Meanwhile, we have a bit of a breather.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:11 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> It&#8217;s been a bad week for bigots. On Thursday, gay marriage became legal in New Mexico, and on Friday it became legal in Utah. Gay marriage is now legal in a third of the states. I suspect it&#8217;ll be legal in all states by the end of 2014. Let&#8217;s hope so, anyway.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:16 &#8211; With Christmas so near, kit orders have tapered off a lot. We shipped only three kits yesterday and have only one outstanding order so far today. Orders should pick up again the week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day, presumably because people have Christmas money to spend. Last December we did about 25% of the month&#8217;s business in that period. Meanwhile, we have a bit of a breather.\n<\/p>\n<p>10:11 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/21\/saturday-21-december-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 21 December 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,38,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-news-2","category-politics","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}