{"id":3477,"date":"2016-09-08T09:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:35:40","slug":"surprises-southern-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Surprises in Every Southern Aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Most of you are familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biglots.com\/\">Big Lots<\/a>, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing, so you know the store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s merchandise changes continually. The reclaimed wood crates you see in aisle seven this week, for instance, may be replaced by programmable slow cookers the next. In fact, their tagline is: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Find surprises in every aisle, every day at Big Lots!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3478\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9707-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9707\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9707-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9707-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9707-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>So when my recent stop yielded this surprise, one could argue that it should have been no surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3479\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3479\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9704-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9704\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9704-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9704-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9704-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>In fairness, however, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a surprise that never once happened in my Windy City Big Lots. Honestly, if it had, I probably would have informed store management about a pet gone rogue. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you are familiar with Big Lots, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing, so you know the store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s merchandise changes continually. The reclaimed wood crates you see in aisle seven this week, for instance, may be replaced by programmable slow cookers the next. In fact, their tagline is: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Find surprises in every aisle, every day at Big Lots!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2093,2091,2088,2090,2089,2092],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-big-lots-adventures","tag-lizards-in-store","tag-lizards-in-the-south","tag-southern-geckos","tag-southern-lizards","tag-southern-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}