{"id":23166,"date":"2015-09-15T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23166"},"modified":"2015-09-15T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:55:19","slug":"32-million-americans-already-christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/32-million-americans-already-christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"32 Million Americans Already Christmas Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditcards.com\/credit-card-news\/early-holiday-shopping-survey.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>survey by CreditCards.com<\/strong><\/a> has media analysts in shock: more than 32 million Americans have already started their <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> shopping, the survey reveals. That seems to fly in the face of a media-generated figure that 70 percent of Americans are &#8220;annoyed&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> creep. <\/p>\n<p>Of course &#8212; they only surveyed about 1000 people. But claiming it is scientific anyway, CreditCards.com concludes that online shopping is growing in popularity with a full 14 percent now saying they prefer to do it all online. And the younger the age group the less likely that any kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> shopping has been done. <\/p>\n<p>Even still, the survey shows that at least 1 in five is going to wait until <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Eve to get it all done. <\/p>\n<p>No matter what, the survey from a credit card advocate clear shows that shopping and spending money trumps the pure shock of seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> on the shelves in September. What are the odds of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by CreditCards.com has media analysts in shock: more than 32 million Americans have already started their Christmas shopping, the survey reveals. That seems to fly in the face of a media-generated figure that 70 percent of Americans are &#8220;annoyed&#8221; by Christmas creep. Of course &#8212; they only surveyed about 1000 people. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,112],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-23166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-shopping","tag-christmas-shopping-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}