{"id":4490,"date":"2011-12-17T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:54:53","slug":"is-this-amazons-big-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2011\/12\/17\/is-this-amazons-big-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Amazon&#8217;s Big Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I had an interesting conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/reyes-chow.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bruce Reyes-Chow<\/a> last night. \u00a0His family is trying to do half their shopping on <a href=\"http:\/\/etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Etsy<\/a>, and half on Amazon. \u00a0He said it\u2019s hard, because they could easily get everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ref_=gno_prmlogo%23&amp;tag=theoblogy-20&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon<\/a>, but they want to support small businesses as well.<\/p>\n<p>As for me and my house, we\u2019re getting almost everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ref_=gno_prmlogo%23&amp;tag=theoblogy-20&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon<\/a>. \u00a0How about you and your family? \u00a0Are you still going to the mall, shopping on Amazon, or supporting local businesses?<\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=theoblogy-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=holiday&amp;f=ifr\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting conversation with Bruce Reyes-Chow last night. \u00a0His family is trying to do half their shopping on Etsy, and half on Amazon. \u00a0He said it\u2019s hard, because they could easily get everything from Amazon, but they want to support small businesses as well. 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