{"id":39140,"date":"2014-01-03T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39140"},"modified":"2014-01-03T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:01:03","slug":"a-damn-nice-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39140","title":{"rendered":"A Damn Nice Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like one Midwest regional retailer will get some business from me if I ever end up out that way.\u00a0 As will another, somewhat larger retail chain.<\/p>\n<p>The Indianapolis Colts play a first-round NFL playoff game this weekend.\u00a0 Up until yesterday, though, it looked like the game might not be sold out &#8211; and thus unavailable on TV locally.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Meijer supermarket chain.\u00a0 On Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/nfl.si.com\/2014\/01\/03\/colts-avoid-playoffs-tv-blackout-bengals-packers\/\">Meijer purchased the last 1,200 remaining tickets<\/a> for the game.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not why they&#8217;d get my business, though.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d get some business from me because they&#8217;ve announced they&#8217;re donating the tickets to local military members and their family.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, they&#8217;ll get a helluva lot of good press and goodwill out of that.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 That&#8217;s fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also have to consider shopping at Kroger, too, from time to time.\u00a0 Kroger is apparently doing the same thing in Cincinnati &#8211; though they haven&#8217;t yet achieved a sellout in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos, Meijer.\u00a0 Kudos, Kroger.\u00a0 And thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like one Midwest regional retailer will get some business from me if I &hellip; <a title=\"A Damn Nice Gesture\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39140\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Damn Nice Gesture<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}