{"id":758,"date":"2005-04-24T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/04\/24\/menards-is-awesome\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T21:08:28","slug":"menards-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/04\/24\/menards-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Menards Is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were shopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menards.com\">Menards<\/a> today. If you are not living within the reach of Menards, it could be thought of as a big hardware, lawn and garden place. Much like Home Depot. Except uniquely Minnesotan. [<em>or at least midwestern<\/em>] Witness the below pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/images\/TalkingDeer1.jpg\" alt=\"TalkingDeer1.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"144\" height=\"176\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/images\/TalkingDeer2.jpg\" alt=\"TalkingDeer1.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"144\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is just what you need to finish the decorating on your house! It talks! It sings! It comes with a Microphone so you can talk and freak out your friends! Ahh! The deer is talking!<\/p>\n<p>When I was walking past this display, there was an older gentleman, dressed in carharts and a flannel hat. He spoke into the microphone, &#8220;Test, Test&#8221; and then looked upwards towards the magical deer. No deerlips were moving, again &#8220;Test, 1, 2, Test&#8221;. Nothing. Shake microphone&#8230; &#8220;Test, 1, 2&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I almost lost it. But I soldiered on, undeterred. We needed a compost bin. Of course there was no compost bin. They had them, but they are now discontinued. Oh yes, there is one in stock in Blaine. &#8220;No, thanks&#8221;, I say.<\/p>\n<p>I only go to Blaine in the direst of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back to find the Juice-ette, I pass the deer again, it&#8217;s singing &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221;. My day has been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were shopping at Menards today. If you are not living within the reach of Menards, it could be thought of as a big hardware, lawn and garden place. Much like Home Depot. Except uniquely Minnesotan. [or at least midwestern] Witness the below pictures: This is just what you need to finish the decorating on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}