{"id":287,"date":"2011-09-04T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-09-04T02:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:20:36","slug":"mall-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/09\/04\/mall-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mall Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in the Mall of America intending to visit the Apple Store to purchase a 3G iPad for Cindy&#8217;s mom who is approaching 90. As we approached the store, I noticed that there was a Microsoft store opposite the Apple store. I guess I knew that this was the case, but just looking into the stores I wonder just who thought this would be a good idea. With the exception of maybe the xbox, what would you find in a Microsoft store? Microsoft just does not seem like a come view our merchandise type company.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad was a big hit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"microsoftstore by grabe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grabe\/6111017886\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6069\/6111017886_186a8ba48b.jpg?resize=396%2C468\" alt=\"microsoftstore\" width=\"396\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"applestore by grabe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grabe\/6110473197\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6195\/6110473197_08d1ae8b15.jpg?resize=396%2C417\" alt=\"applestore\" width=\"396\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in the Mall of America intending to visit the Apple Store to purchase a 3G iPad for Cindy&#8217;s mom who is approaching 90. As we approached the store, I noticed that there was a Microsoft store opposite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/09\/04\/mall-battle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}