{"id":5646,"date":"2019-06-29T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2019-06-29T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:15:37","slug":"print-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/print-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Print purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re my age (and I don&#8217;t know if you are, but I sure am!) you never really bought trading cards. Technically, you bought a stick of gum, and they threw in a pile of trading cards. This had several effects, including allowing the manufacturer to claim they were not an illegal monopoly on trading cards but a legal competitor in gum; getting the preferred tax status for foods; and saddling many collectors with finding that decades-old gum has now fused to cards in their previously unopened packs.<\/p>\n<p>I think about this when I see the listing for &#8220;<strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_7574610\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peanuts-2020-Commemorative-Print-Calendar\/dp\/1524850861\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=0d0180b3aa0173d1a045270919f313e6&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Peanuts 2020 Commemorative Print with Wall Calendar\" data-amzn-link-id=\"0d0180b3aa0173d1a045270919f313e6\">Peanuts 2020 Commemorative Print with Wall Calendar<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_7574610\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=0d0180b3aa0173d1a045270919f313e6&amp;_cb=1561831495297\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8220;, which is phrased as to convince you that what you&#8217;re really buying is this one piece of paper with a Peanuts picture to hang on your wall, and that the other twelve Peanuts pictures designed to be hung on your wall throughout the year are just a bonus. It&#8217;s that one picture that you buy to commemorate the strip&#8217;s 70th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5648\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PeanutsPrintsCover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Note: It&#8217;s actually thirteen other pictures, as they have a single page covering the last four months of 2019.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re my age (and I don&#8217;t know if you are, but I sure am!) you never really bought trading cards. 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