{"id":127,"date":"2011-12-07T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/07\/the-holiday-season-in-numbers\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:52:00","slug":"the-holiday-season-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/07\/the-holiday-season-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Season in Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BEEESgQ6Xkc\/Tt-5IqvIJSI\/AAAAAAAAAUo\/VF3TdpLeIP8\/s1600\/CharlieBrown_with_doghouse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BEEESgQ6Xkc\/Tt-5IqvIJSI\/AAAAAAAAAUo\/VF3TdpLeIP8\/s400\/CharlieBrown_with_doghouse.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/facts_for_features_special_editions\/cb11-ff24.html\">Here are some statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau for the holiday season:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">$27.2 Billion<\/span> &#8211; Value of retail sales in the nation&#8217;s department stores in December 2010<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">$34 Billion<\/span> &#8211; Value of retail sales via electronic\u00a0shopping\u00a0and mail-order houses in December 2010<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">$983 Million<\/span> &#8211; Value of U.S. imports of Christmas tree ornaments from China between January and September 2011<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">$2.5 Billion<\/span> &#8211; The value of U.S. toy imports including stuffed toys, puzzles, and electric trains from China between January and September 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">50%<\/span> &#8211; Proportion of nations potatoes produced in Idaho and\u00a0Washington\u00a0in 2010<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">$1.5 Billion<\/span> &#8211; Value of product shipments of candles in 2009 by the nation&#8217;s manufacturers<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Happy Holidays!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau for the holiday season: $27.2 Billion &#8211; Value of retail sales in the nation&#8217;s department stores in December 2010 $34 Billion &#8211; Value of retail sales via electronic\u00a0shopping\u00a0and mail-order houses in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/07\/the-holiday-season-in-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}