{"id":1643,"date":"2014-02-03T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2014-02-03T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T13:37:04","slug":"monday-3-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/02\/03\/monday-3-february-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 3 February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:37 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara and Frances are both taking the day off work today to drive down to the hospital in Thomasville and bring their mother back to her apartment at Creekside. They&#8217;ve arranged to have home health aides with Sankie around the clock until she gets back on her feet.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I knew it had to happen eventually, but I&#8217;m still pissed. I ordered a book for Barbara from Amazon.com yesterday. When the email invoice arrived, it showed they&#8217;d charged sales tax. Bastards. North Carolina already collects use tax. There&#8217;s a line on the state income tax return where you have to calculate use tax due as a percentage of your adjusted gross income, as well as adding additional use tax for individual purchases over a certain dollar amount. So now North Carolina is double-taxing purchases from vendors outside North Carolina. Bastards.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:37 &#8211; Barbara and Frances are both taking the day off work today to drive down to the hospital in Thomasville and bring their mother back to her apartment at Creekside. They&#8217;ve arranged to have home health aides with Sankie around the clock until she gets back on her feet.\n<\/p>\n<p>I knew it had to happen eventually, but I&#8217;m still pissed. I ordered a book for Barbara from Amazon.com yesterday. When the email invoice arrived,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/02\/03\/monday-3-february-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 3 February 2014 &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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","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=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}