{"id":2112,"date":"2014-12-01T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2014-12-01T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:01:45","slug":"black-fridays-guesswork-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday&#8217;s Guesswork Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How did we get these numbers, which almost by definition are wrong? It is a combination of a retail trade group that cares little for accurate economic data, a terrible survey methodology and a naive and lazy news media, which seems to believe its role is to mindlessly repeat whatever nonsense is peddled by the aforementioned trade group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-12-01\/black-fridays-guesswork-gloom\">Black Friday&#8217;s Guesswork Gloom &#8211; Bloomberg View<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did we get these numbers, which almost by definition are wrong? It is a combination of a retail trade group that cares little for accurate economic data, a terrible survey methodology and a naive and lazy news media, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[126,138],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-2","tag-mathematics","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}