{"id":41068,"date":"2013-11-15T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_americans_trimming_their_holiday_spending_plans\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:00:25","slug":"gallup_americans_trimming_their_holiday_spending_plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41068","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Americans Trimming Their Holiday Spending Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> U.S. consumers now estimate they will spend $704 on Christmas gifts this season, down from their $786 average prediction in October. Americans&#8217; latest estimate is also significantly below the $770 they forecasted at this time last year &#8212; a particularly worrisome sign for retailers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/165872\/americans-trimming-holiday-spending-plans.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. consumers now estimate they will spend $704 on Christmas gifts this season, down from their $786 average prediction in October. Americans&#8217; latest estimate is also significantly below the $770 they forecasted at this time last year &#8212; a particularly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41068\">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":[40,50,209,582,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068","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=41068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}