{"id":3089,"date":"2008-12-10T03:30:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T07:41:35","slug":"real-simple-nixon-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"Real Simple Nixon Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/z726-hero-226.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/z726-hero-226.jpg','popup','width=310,height=420,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/z726-hero-226-tm.jpg\" height=\"135\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Z726-Hero-226\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsimple.com\/realsimple\/package\/0,21861,1653226-1856324-5,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Simple<\/a><\/strong>, a magazine one <strong>Time Inc<\/strong>. editor once described as &#8220;the dumbest magazine ever printed&#8221; lived up to its reputation in their December issue when, in an article titled <strong><em>50 Gifts Under $50 For Mothers, Sisters, Best Friends,<\/em><\/strong> they told 1.9 million readers that a <strong>Nixon Vega Watch<\/strong> was available at <strong>Target<\/strong> for $40. It&#8217;s not. They ran this retraction online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, this item is not available for $40 at Target, as printed in the magazine. Real Simple readers can purchase it exclusively for $50 ($10 below the retail price) at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nixonnow.com\/watches\/womens\/the-vega-Z726_226.html\" target=\"_blank\">nixonnow.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, <em>Real Simple&#8217;s<\/em> screw-up becomes a holiday gift savings for all of us. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsimple.com\/realsimple\/package\/0,21861,1653226-1856324-5,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Simple<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nixonnow.com\/watches\/womens\/the-vega-Z726_226.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Simple, a magazine one Time Inc. editor once described as &#8220;the dumbest magazine ever printed&#8221; lived up to its reputation in their December issue when, in an article titled 50 Gifts Under $50 For Mothers, Sisters, Best Friends, they told 1.9 million readers that a Nixon Vega Watch was available at Target for $40. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}