{"id":1166,"date":"2006-11-25T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2006-11-25T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T13:13:12","slug":"and-another-bright-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"And another bright spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swing by Gander Mountain on my way home from the reserve, just to see if there&#8217;s a chance I can get some info on setting up my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckmasters.com\/sweep_06\/Prize_Folder\/SQ32_05.htm\"> new bow<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have not fired a bow in years, so I have a lot of questions, and even though it was Black Friday, I managed to find the guy that sets up bows, and get him to answer my questions.<\/p>\n<p>He says they&#8217;re open till ten and would I like to go get the bow and he can set it up. <\/p>\n<p>So I run home and load the bow and as much of the stuff associated with it as I can carry, and head back. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not a HUGE fan of Gander Mountain. I like to deal with smaller stores, and Gander Mountain is along the lines of bigbox places, so it&#8217;s not my favorite choice- but this guy (a kid, really) sets up my bow, nocks it, puts on a peep, shows me what arrows to buy, shows me how to set up my release, cuts the arrows to size for me, and DOESN&#8217;T CHARGE ME A THING.  <\/p>\n<p>I end up with a half dozen arrows to begin with, and a decent bow case, and I&#8217;m out the door under $60. <\/p>\n<p>Customer service isn&#8217;t dead. I&#8217;ll be damned. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I was skunked again yesterday, and I suspect I&#8217;ll be skunked again today. Still: Any day afield and all that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swing by Gander Mountain on my way home from the reserve, just to see if there&#8217;s a chance I can get some info on setting up my new bow. I have not fired a bow in years, so I have a lot of questions, and even though it was Black Friday, I managed to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}