{"id":17936,"date":"2012-11-27T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17936"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:04:18","slug":"the-missing-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/the-missing-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Myrick posted a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324784404578141391672304034.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> article on differences among the age cohorts regarding shopping habits, pointing out that his (and my) generation didn&#8217;t even show up in the graphic:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GenX-is-missing.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GenX is missing\" width=\"555\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GenX-is-missing.jpg 555w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GenX-is-missing-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GenX-is-missing-480x555.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. We can tell the shopping habits of folks from age 18 up to 34, then from 55 upwards. I wonder why the invisible folks aged 35-54 didn&#8217;t qualify? Perhaps because their behaviour would ruin the message the article is trying to push?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Myrick posted a link to a Wall Street Journal article on differences among the age cohorts regarding shopping habits, pointing out that his (and my) generation didn&#8217;t even show up in the graphic: Hmmm. We can tell the shopping habits of folks from age 18 up to 34, then from 55 upwards. I wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[831,28],"tags":[407,1205,159,290],"class_list":["post-17936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","tag-babyboomers","tag-generationx","tag-shopping","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43395,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions\/43395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}