{"id":9562,"date":"2022-11-22T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9562","title":{"rendered":"SIGN OF THE TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa and I were in Target the other day, browsing the Christmas section to see what&#8217;s new and interesting this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This display was not what I was expecting, but it is certainly &#8220;new and interesting&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhYLsYPXxkAAqmSqdeahaMyp-vCNdVIbmJsVPcZ_Zh20og2yqlbwZn4lLcd59wBukoGWWwSu_oGSGxvhAjZPjlovBD92mYfPKK2kNnRvZrxleja55tjBYR7evuhjy-gZHyYDGXGAo3XdPsyrYTuiIkX2lMjlDjAFsFKkcdzIc38cPC30TDW2JYn5Qif\/w640-h360\/20221117_092934%20(1)%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1308\" height=\"736\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRKSNZFIYOa0hC-jHbDg9cFL6M-NrbyrPNqIp6ixO50YRKsf5iDpZIYnJu8kc7hwXUEmcdhkoTMhzfiOlKTgaduTZIpuXEMIJGwbWzqrTqlo8f9k9OhFNAPt7wo3J04b4aEzcbbqRi9hWKtJpMRF5XLYTe9xyYkGrAjxC_DOrmzgHtbL0i8NyfgnIn\/w400-h266\/20221117_092808%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"911\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjfqXEe89jSXAzI0H_W6E17mHO-YiRMOAxBLQ4TLKNyawza6iCA2sYY2qx2WVQIDL3RYOJr8QEcC45e2gLNOA51nCHEVs-eaA8-iso5ViOYBwlHSE5dSYfS4I_yCYWFLawUgHLGg00wt_f0iFSwjNaMnTI7YAw4cq5H_eMddgK06-YM-zf8cm5FDsVJ\/w400-h266\/20221117_092817%20(1)%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1463\" height=\"974\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgD8qd-mF_DI9LNl69nvGS20sbbH3y_eHaJgYVFqVIFE00c9o5vzVvEeMAaJ5LVcT7lnj-kcXzOitpRjdECiyiMS0hDW4u7d6BxDwXpXX-PYn1JbaVrxdcEzU2Ilr6UQwrxgQjL67qJvs-MOZ4idKxeGJTdM4Bm-8eNOzbAF2XqnughZnI4doDSkErd\/s320\/20221117_092812%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"860\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do better, Target!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa and I were in Target the other day, browsing the Christmas section to see what&#8217;s new and interesting this year. This display was not what I was expecting, but it is certainly &#8220;new and interesting&#8221;: Do better, Target!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9571,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}