{"id":2210,"date":"2009-02-08T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2009-02-08T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:14:49","slug":"brian-is-an-easy-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Brian is an Easy Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/3260970945\/\"  title=\"0_200902071647_035.jpeg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3422\/3260970945_364762e58f_o.jpg\" width=\"496\" alt=\"0_200902071647_035.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ShamWow guy at the HBA home show is by no means a fantastic salesman, yet he managed to <del>con<\/del> persuade my husband to buy his product.  Brian was completely convinced it was a great deal.  He got two sets for only $20, after all.  I knew we should have deposited his poker winnings in the bank.  Having cash in his wallet is like holding sand in your hands: here today, gone tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcactionnews.com\/mostpopular\/story\/Does-ShamWow-Really-Wow\/ztREjmpJYkiOeIKZJ-FNZw.cspx\" >I had heard that the ShamWow doesn&#8217;t really work as great as they say it does<\/a> so maybe the sales guy deserves more credit for his very convincing sales pitch.  Either that, or Brian is just an easy mark.  <\/p>\n<p>Kidding aside&#8230;  On the bright side, he did get two sets so now we have one and his mom and dad has one.  If anything, at least it&#8217;s affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ShamWow guy at the HBA home show is by no means a fantastic salesman, yet he managed to con persuade my husband to buy his product. Brian was completely convinced it was a great deal. He got two sets for only $20, after all. I knew we should have deposited his poker winnings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}