{"id":1193592,"date":"2023-10-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193592"},"modified":"2023-10-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:00:00","slug":"the-mildly-depressing-history-of-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193592","title":{"rendered":"The Mildly Depressing History of &#039;Black Friday&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ef1d95e18c8cd83c81a7d4a877815ab8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a quasi-holiday in the United States that\u2019s marked by consumer discounts, shopping, and <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2017\/11\/23\/the-worst-black-friday-brawls-in-history-warning-graphic-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violence<\/a>. While its importance is slowly waning as online shopping grows, it\u2019s still a big deal in the U.S.\u2014it\u2019s estimated that around <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/25\/black-friday-2022-big-discounts-high-pressure-retailers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">166 million American consumers <\/a> went\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/the-mildly-depressing-history-of-black-friday-1850935779\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LifeHacker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/the-mildly-depressing-history-of-black-friday-1850935779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mildly Depressing History of &#8216;Black Friday&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a quasi-holiday in the United States that\u2019s marked by consumer discounts, shopping, and violence. While its importance is slowly waning as online shopping grows, it\u2019s still a big deal in the U.S.\u2014it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,110],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-1193592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifehacker","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-lifehacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}