{"id":6800,"date":"2006-08-06T18:18:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2006-08-06T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T22:18:26","slug":"tax-free-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":"TAX-FREE WEEKEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend it was back-to-school weekend in NC and VA during which one could shop for school supplies, clothing, and computers without paying sales-tax.  I must confess that I don&#8217;t get it.  If it&#8217;s a good idea that the State not collect sales tax on school necessities during the second weekend in August, why is not not a good idea the other 51 weekends?<\/p>\n<p>So, is this a pander to the sheeple or a sop to the merchants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend it was back-to-school weekend in NC and VA during which one could shop for school supplies, clothing, and computers without paying sales-tax. I must confess that I don&#8217;t get it. If it&#8217;s a good idea that the State not collect sales tax on school necessities during the second weekend in August, why is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}