That’s a bit of a stretch (my best Xmas was when I got the Atari 2600), but pretty damn close for a 43 year old culture junkie.<\/p>\n

Not only did I have a picturesque holiday in snowy Vermont with family I love, but I got to run through a warehouse like those “Shopping Contest” where contestants have to fill their carts in a certain amount of time. I’ll reveal more later, but know that, for me, it was like letting a diabetic into a candy store and waving an insulin wand over his head and saying “go for it, chubbo!”<\/p>\n

I’ll also talk about Christmas Tree Stores and Vermont. I did last year but I want to go a bit deeper.<\/p>\n

Pictures and video to follow. But for now, I want to thank the Vermontians for another holiday home run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s a bit of a stretch (my best Xmas was when I got the Atari 2600), but pretty damn close for a 43 year old culture junkie. Not only did I have a picturesque holiday in snowy Vermont with family I love, but I got to run through a warehouse like those “Shopping Contest” where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-1oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}