{"id":4006,"date":"2010-04-15T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2010-04-15T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:35:15","slug":"shopping-for-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"Shopping for Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took Matthias to Best Buy today to pick up a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/Apple%26%23174%3B+-+iPod+touch%26%23174%3B+32GB*+MP3+Player+%283rd+Generation%29+-+Black\/8771769.p?id=1204332006361&#038;skuId=8771769\" >32GB iPod Touch<\/a> for one of his colleagues back in Germany.  Apparently, electronics are much cheaper in the US.  Probably partially because the value of the Euro is better.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias did really well because he printed the web site page showing the iPod for only $269.99 (they were $299.99 at the store).  Besides that, the store clerk didn&#8217;t charge him any sales tax so he got a really good deal for his friend.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/4524730736\/\"  title=\"at Best Buy by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4044\/4524730736_9a89afc539.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"at Best Buy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/4524751798\/\"  title=\"playing with the iPad by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4524751798_ca415930cf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"playing with the iPad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While there, both Brian and Matthias took advantage of the opportunity to play with some iPads.  They&#8217;re pretty neat.  We&#8217;re too broke, though.  I think we&#8217;re going to be late adopters on this one. =P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took Matthias to Best Buy today to pick up a 32GB iPod Touch for one of his colleagues back in Germany. Apparently, electronics are much cheaper in the US. Probably partially because the value of the Euro is better. Matthias did really well because he printed the web site page showing the iPod for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[1012,1011,1010,1013,2497,2487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006"}],"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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}