{"id":40,"date":"2017-03-31T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynci90.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:33:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:33:24","slug":"thrifting-mar-31-2017-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Thrifting on March 31, 2017 in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Salvation<\/p>\n

Or as many who don’t hold economic power in the US call it, shopping.<\/p>\n

Went to the Salvation Army in Downtown Santa Cruz<\/a>. Found some decent CDs including Matt Kearney – Nothing Left to Lose<\/a> The Pixies – Surfer Rosa and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. The sign on the wall said $2 per CD but then I got charged $2.50 for each at the register…<\/p>\n

Went to the Santa Cruz Thrift Center<\/a> later on in the day. Found a PS2 Slim. It had the AV cables, but no power cable and no controllers. The disc tray had a Finding Nemo DVD in it. The price tag said $25, but with no certainty that it worked, I decided against it since I couldn’t find the power cable. An aisle over, I found a cool looking collapsible trellis thing which I think is used for holding wine bottles. Right next to that was the true gem: a bedside stand for only $2.99<\/a> and The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/a> for $0.99!<\/p>\n

Nothing like the thrill of shopping at the store, finding great deals, to make a day decent. Or maybe I’m just falling for capitalism once again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or as many who don’t hold economic power in the US call it, shopping. Went to the Salvation Army in Downtown Santa Cruz. Found some decent CDs including Matt Kearney – Nothing Left to Lose The Pixies – Surfer Rosa and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. The sign on the wall said $2 per CD but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,137,142,149],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deals","tag-shopping","tag-steals","tag-thrifting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}