{"id":1561,"date":"2009-05-23T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2009-05-23T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:43:45","slug":"half-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/half-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit City died.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, in my email, this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/circuitcity-1.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit City email\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So it sounds as though they&#8217;re now an online-only enterprise. Does that mean they&#8217;re half alive?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>They set up a page on Twitter &#8212; so they must not be too dead. Check this out, though:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/circuitcity-2.jpg\" alt=\"Early Circuit City Twitter page\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Only 20 updates and 516 followers!<\/p>\n<p>Well, I upped that to 517.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update:<\/b> Oooops. I messed up the graphic. Til I fixed it, the number of followers had changed.)<\/p>\n<p>They even have some good <b>We&#8217;re Back from the Dead<\/b> deals. Here&#8217;s one that I actually added to my cart:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.circuitcity.com\/applications\/SearchTools\/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2315952&#038;sku=T555-1044\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/circuitcity-3.jpg\" alt=\"Transcend TS4GJFV30 JetFlash USB Flash Drive - 4GB -- on sale at Circuit City for $2.99\" \/><br \/>\n<i>check it out!<\/i><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Four gigs! (Mine is 512. Megs, that is.)<\/p>\n<p>At $2.99, I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s a Really Good Deal. But I&#8217;ve never heard of Transcend before. And paying $6.99 for shipping kinda takes the Really Good out of the Deal. Even if I took that DVD bundle as well &#8212; which is quite enticing to me, too.<\/p>\n<p>So, even though I signed up for an account, no sale.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey &#8212; I was surprised that I had to open an account. It didn&#8217;t let me sign in using my old Circuit City account. In fact, it didn&#8217;t even recognize my email address.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit City died. This morning, in my email, this: So it sounds as though they&#8217;re now an online-only enterprise. Does that mean they&#8217;re half alive? Probably not. They set up a page on Twitter &#8212; so they must not be too dead. Check this out, though: Only 20 updates and 516 followers! Well, I upped &#8230; <a title=\"Half Alive?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/half-alive\/\" aria-label=\"More on Half Alive?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[624],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}