{"id":6763,"date":"2016-11-10T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2016-10-31T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:27:29","slug":"are-you-ready-to-optoutside-on-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/11\/10\/are-you-ready-to-optoutside-on-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready to #OptOutside on Black Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6764\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/opt-outside.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6764\" class=\" wp-image-6764\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/opt-outside.png\" alt=\"#OptOutside\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/opt-outside.png 500w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/opt-outside-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/opt-outside-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#OptOutside<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year, CORBA supporter <a href=\"http:\/\/rei.com\" target=\"_blank\">REI<\/a> chose to break the Black Friday shopping\u00a0frenzy trend, and remained closed the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, they encouraged people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/opt-outside\" target=\"_blank\">#OptOutside<\/a> for some quality recreation.<\/p>\n<p>We applaud their efforts and want to encourage everyone to spend Friday, November 25th riding a bike, hiking a trail, playing in the snow, or just communing with nature.<\/p>\n<p>Black Friday has become synonymous with crowds, checkout lines, and camping outside retail stores on the sidewalk. That&#8217;s not the kind of camping we like to do. It&#8217;s also become synonymous with deals and sales over the last two decades, but these days so-called &#8220;black Friday sales&#8221; often last a week or more.<\/p>\n<p>While there are certainly some deals to be had, is it really worth the hassle? Studies have shown that many black friday &#8220;sale&#8221; items can be purchased at similar prices at other\u00a0times of the year. Black Friday itself isn&#8217;t even the busiest shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>So won&#8217;t you join us, and #OptOutside for Black Friday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, CORBA supporter REI chose to break the Black Friday shopping\u00a0frenzy trend, and remained closed the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, they encouraged people to #OptOutside for some quality recreation. We applaud their efforts and want to encourage everyone to spend Friday, November 25th riding a bike, hiking a trail, playing in the snow, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,296,11],"tags":[389,239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}