{"id":572,"date":"2010-02-16T21:17:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:21:57","slug":"gift-cards-boost-sales-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Gift Cards Boost Sales in January?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some speculation that the use of gift cards may have been a reason behind January&#8217;s modest sales growth over 2009. (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=156505\">article<\/a>) That means people are smarter and are using up their cards faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some speculation that the use of gift cards may have been a reason behind January&#8217;s modest sales growth over 2009. (article) That means people are smarter and are using up their cards faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}