{"id":23339,"date":"2010-12-09T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/americans_expect_happier_holidays_researchers_say\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:59:59","slug":"americans_expect_happier_holidays_researchers_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23339","title":{"rendered":"Americans expect happier holidays, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Scrooge will have time on his hands this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that is the word from Consumer Reports, which reports that the holidays are getting happier.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 40 percent of adults say they expect the coming holiday season to be &#8220;happier&#8221; than last year&#8217;s, according to the Consumer Reports National Research Center, a unit of Consumers Union, a watchdog organization.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, 33 percent of adults thought their holidays would be happier than the year before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/dec\/05\/americans-expect-happier-holidays-researchers-say\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Scrooge will have time on his hands this Christmas. At least, that is the word from Consumer Reports, which reports that the holidays are getting happier. Indeed, 40 percent of adults say they expect the coming holiday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23339\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,209,575,187,149,129,108,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-economy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}