{"id":3917,"date":"2010-01-19T20:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2010-01-19T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:16:36","slug":"online-shopping-addiction-the-12-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/online-shopping-addiction-the-12-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Shopping Addiction: The 12 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/compulsive-shopper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3919\" title=\"compulsive shopper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/compulsive-shopper-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/compulsive-shopper.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/compulsive-shopper.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/compulsive-shopper.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Put your item in the shopping cart.<br \/>\n2. Open a new window and go to a news website<br \/>\n3. Take a few cleansing breaths<br \/>\n4. Think about all the things you own that are nearly EXACTLY like the thing in your cart.<br \/>\n5. Think about your unpaid bills.<br \/>\n6. Recall the last time you bought something that didn&#8217;t make you one bit happier.<br \/>\n7. Picture yourself ordering the item and feeling the inevitable remorse.<br \/>\n8. Now picture yourself feeling virtuous.<br \/>\n9. What a close call!<br \/>\n11. See? You can kick this habit: You are in control.<br \/>\n12. The next day, go back to your cart and buy your item because you really really want it.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Photo by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/read.php?TOPIC_PK=2376\" target=\"_blank\">Jeongmee Yoon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Put your item in the shopping cart. 2. Open a new window and go to a news website 3. Take a few cleansing breaths 4. Think about all the things you own that are nearly EXACTLY like the thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/online-shopping-addiction-the-12-steps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,9,2],"tags":[360,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-11b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}