{"id":17437,"date":"2013-07-12T22:40:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T05:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17437"},"modified":"2013-07-12T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T05:40:05","slug":"thorstein-veblen-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17437","title":{"rendered":"Thorstein Veblen Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2013\/06\/bob-mcdonnell-refuses-comment-6500-rolex\">Gov. Bob McDonnell is not<\/a> commenting on a $6,500 Rolex watch that published reports say he received from a major campaign donor who has lavished his family with thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of gifts he has not disclosed publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why anyone <em>wants <\/em>a six thousand dollar watch. I mean, it doesn\u2019t do anything but tell the time. It doesn\u2019t tell the time any better than a fifty dollar watch does. Hell, it doesn\u2019t tell the time any better than the free Ninja Turtles watch my niece got in a cereal box.<\/p>\n<p>And walking around with $6000 on my wrist would just freak me out \u2013 I mean, what if it gets broken? What if I misplace it? It\u2019s worth six freaking thousand dollars! I\u2019d just be a nervous wreck.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of rich people stuff I can see the appeal of; I love going to Broadway shows, living in a good house or in a gorgeous area is nice, etc. But I\u2019m never going to understand why anyone wants a six thousand dollar watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bob McDonnell is not commenting on a $6,500 Rolex watch that published reports say he received from a major campaign donor who has lavished his family with thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of gifts he has not disclosed publicly. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17437\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17438,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions\/17438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}