{"id":3201,"date":"2021-05-19T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2021-05-19T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:44:00","slug":"this-is-the-new-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"This is the new gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon cards are now so in demand that local retailers cannot handle the crush of customers (sometimes literally) clambering to obtain them. Target, for example, once one of the world\u2019s go-to spots for Pok\u00e9mon cards, has just plain given up.<br \/>\nNerds fighting over pieces of cardboard.<br \/>\nRemember the episode of <em>Seinfeld<\/em>\u00a0where Jerry fights an old lady for a loaf of marble rye?Yeah, this is worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon cards are now so in demand that local retailers cannot handle the crush of customers (sometimes literally) clambering to obtain them. Target, for example, once one of the world\u2019s go-to spots for Pok\u00e9mon cards, has just plain given up. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}