{"id":698,"date":"2006-10-05T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2006-10-05T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:30:42","slug":"amusing_window_display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/amusing_window_display\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Window Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from lunch and a brisk afternoon walk around the mean streets of SLC. Saw something that gave me a chuckle as I passed the <a title=\"The Stinky Bookstore, and My Latest Aquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/09\/the_stinky_bookstore_and_my_la\/\">stinky bookstore<\/a> and thought I&#8217;d share.<\/p>\n<p>In the shop&#8217;s window, among the antique steel cans of Miller Beer, the Godzilla toy, and an ancient, crumbling Book of Mormon held together with a red ribbon, was a pair of recently published but used hardcovers standing side-by-side. A hand-lettered sign tucked between them made the following offer:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ann Coulter&#8217;s <i>Treason<\/i> $7. <i>Living History<\/i> by Hillary Clinton free with Coulter book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is this someone&#8217;s gesture at political balance? Or just an observation about what sells in Utah and what doesn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from lunch and a brisk afternoon walk around the mean streets of SLC. Saw something that gave me a chuckle as I passed the stinky bookstore and thought I&#8217;d share. In the shop&#8217;s window, among the antique steel cans of Miller Beer, the Godzilla toy, and an ancient, crumbling Book of Mormon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}