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Black Friday, The Shopping Poem<\/p>\n
The people crowd the entrances<\/em> -John McCullagh<\/p>\n So, as we kick off the official Christmas season it is my duty to inform you that there are still 27 days left of Autumn. My brother-in-law is really into the Santa Claus parade in downtown Ashland (apparently he has fond memories of a drunken Santa and hopes for a repeat performance) so I agreed to go along, mainly because I wanted to photograph the lights. We never made it to the Plaza because the parade was a little long this year and\u00a0 grandma and nephew were waiting at home for supper and sister was not really that happy about walking another three blocks on top of the 5 or so we had to go from where the car was parked and then the eight back… so, now we have a date to do it again next year and not to miss the illumination. As for the poem, I really didn’t expect to find anything when I searched for poems about Black Friday so when I did I just had to share it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Friday, The Shopping Poem The people crowd the entrances at Malls all over town. To seize the choicest bargain deals,\u00a0 They’d gladly knock you down. The retailers all hold their breath as shopping gets in gear. Will Santa fill his sleigh as hoped?\u00a0 -or lay off more Reindeer?\u00a0 There are plastic toys from China … Continue reading Day 73 – Christmas Light Abstract<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstact","category-art","category-autumn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nat Malls all over town.<\/em>
\nTo seize the choicest bargain deals,\u00a0<\/em>
\nThey’d gladly knock you down.<\/em>
\nThe retailers all hold their breath<\/em>
\nas shopping gets in gear.<\/em>
\nWill Santa fill his sleigh as hoped?\u00a0<\/em>
\n-or lay off more Reindeer?\u00a0<\/em>
\nThere are plastic toys from China<\/em>
\ncolored with suspicious paint.<\/em>
\nWhip out your last credit card<\/em>
\n(-when you see the bills, you’ll faint.)\u00a0<\/em>
\n“The children must have Christmas! “<\/em>
\nNo request will be denied.<\/em>
\nNever mind your youngest child<\/em>
\nhas just turned thirty five.<\/em>
\nDon’t forget a gift for you<\/em>
\nDon’t you deserve the best?\u00a0<\/em>
\nShopping is such good therapy<\/em>
\nfor the financially depressed\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n