{"id":34340,"date":"2025-09-18T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34340"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:58:36","slug":"the-chinese-storefront-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/the-chinese-storefront-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Storefront Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>As it is coming to the holidays and as I have once again not really started Christmas shopping until, you know, the approach to Christmas, I have clicked through on one or two Facebook ads for cat-themed things with my beautiful wife in mind.<\/p>\n<p>And, suddenly, I am deluged with them.  Not only am I deluged with them, I am deluged with different storefronts selling the same thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catlamp1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catlamp2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catlamp3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The finest in Chinesium.  I researched the second one, Clara San Diego, and people who ordered from it were not pleased.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, no.  Not going to do it because I would expect a reprise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/29\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-new-credit-card\/\" target=\"_new\">Booker jersey adventure of 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not so much. As it is coming to the holidays and as I have once again not really started Christmas shopping until, you know, the approach to Christmas, I have clicked through on one or two Facebook ads for cat-themed things with my beautiful wife in mind. And, suddenly, I am deluged with them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34342,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34340\/revisions\/34342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}