{"id":3418,"date":"2005-09-01T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/wordpress\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2005-09-01T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T19:42:55","slug":"flea-markets-and-college-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2005\/09\/01\/flea-markets-and-college-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Flea Markets and College Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert<\/a> posted this on his LJ but I thought I would put it here also. It’s people like the ones in this story that restore my faith in my hatred of college students in this town.<\/p>\n

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from the Red and Black’s Guide to Fleamarkets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I’m selling this sweater from United Colors of Benetton, but most of the people here don’t know what Benetton is,” Johnson said, laughing.
\n…
\nAlthough the two girls have only had a booth at J & J’s a few times over the past few years, many vendors, people who Pflugh affectionately refers to as “carnies,” come back every weekend, or even travel around the state to attend different markets.
\n…
\nThe trio, dressed in preppy, clean-cut attire, stood out among the usually casual country crowd.<\/p>\n

Strunk had never been to the flea market before, but Sharp was familiar with J & J’s because of a purchase he had made last year.<\/p>\n

“The last time I was here I bought a duck for $5 for my apartment. Today I want to buy this sword with a skull on it,” Sharp said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I thought that Tess, Eleanor, and Sean might be coming to town tonight but it seems now that they aren’t coming to Athens until Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert posted this on his LJ but I thought I would put it here also. It’s people like the ones in this story that restore my faith in my hatred of college students in this town. from the Red and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}