{"id":4198,"date":"2011-07-11T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2011-07-11T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:57:39","slug":"m-is-for-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;M&#8221; is for Walmart."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, while I was on a road trip, I decided to stop at Micky Ds for a large Diet Coke.\u00a0 And, since the Micky Ds here in Michigan will sell them for only a buck, I decided to buy one before I crossed over the state line.\u00a0 When I saw a highway sign indicating that there was a Micky Ds at the next exit, I took the exit.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got off of the highway, I had to figure out if the Micky Ds was to the right or the left.\u00a0 Scanning the horizon, I saw a big M, so I headed for it.<\/p>\n<p>The sign was posted in the parking lot of a Walmart.\u00a0 Figuring that Micky Ds must be in the parking lot, I drove around the store.\u00a0 But, I could not locate the Micky Ds.\u00a0 So, I jumped back on the highway and continued my trip.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if Micky Ds is going to spend that much money on a big parking lot sign, they should provide some sort of indication as to just where the store is located.\u00a0 I decided that I really didn&#8217;t need a Diet Coke.\u00a0 Oh well, it was a nice idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, while I was on a road trip, I decided to stop at Micky Ds for a large Diet Coke.\u00a0 And, since the Micky Ds here in Michigan will sell them for only a buck, I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-15I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}