{"id":886,"date":"2006-01-12T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=886"},"modified":"2006-01-12T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T02:51:04","slug":"bncom-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/bncom-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"bn.com shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Aunt Elaine and Uncle Chris gave us a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card for Christmas. I decided to use this to purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/questionofgod\/\">The Question of God DVD<\/a>, since I really enjoyed watching it on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it costs $24.98. You need to spend $25, not including tax, to get free shipping. I&#8217;m sure this is done on purpose. The shipping was only $3, but I wasn&#8217;t going to just throw that $3 away! So I went searching through their site for cheap stuff. It&#8217;s not easy, but I finally managed to stumble upon their <a href=\"http:\/\/browse.barnesandnoble.com\/browse\/nav.asp?visgrp=nonfiction&#038;n=5035&#038;userid=GH3OYnjC3j&#038;cds2Pid=10457&#038;hgg=y\">Books &#8211; Only $1.99<\/a> section. I went ahead and spent $3.<\/p>\n<p>So I come home today to 2 Barnes and Noble packages.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/bn_boxes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/bn_boxes_sm.jpg\" alt=\"2 boxes\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two? Why on earth did they ship them separately?<\/p>\n<p>Then I open them.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/bn_cheap_stuff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/bn_cheap_stuff_sm.jpg\" alt=\"cheap stuff\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not only did they ship in two separate boxes (a whole box for a dozen cat stickers? egads!) &#8211; these are just the first two. The Question of God DVD was held up &#8220;1-5 days&#8221;! EJKLSJLDFDSSS!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining exactly. I just thought it was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Aunt Elaine and Uncle Chris gave us a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card for Christmas. I decided to use this to purchase The Question of God DVD, since I really enjoyed watching it on PBS. Of course it costs $24.98. You need to spend $25, not including tax, to get free shipping. I&#8217;m sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}