{"id":908,"date":"2009-04-13T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=908"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:17:44","slug":"flyer-for-a-yard-sale-minneapolis-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/04\/13\/flyer-for-a-yard-sale-minneapolis-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"flyer for a yard sale, minneapolis 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via mnspeak and <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com\/post\/95292703\/flyer-for-a-yard-sale-minneapolis-1980\">stuff about minneapolis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SePBDZKIhOI\/AAAAAAAACyM\/M_XEhpntI4o\/s1600-h\/sale.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324311448519214306\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SePBDZKIhOI\/AAAAAAAACyM\/M_XEhpntI4o\/s400\/sale.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>this sign dates to the early days of the incarceration boom. with so many going to prison each year, i&#8217;m surprised that i&#8217;ve never seen such an advertisement before. more typically, i see divorce cited as the reason that a car or household goods must be sold. <\/p>\n<p>perhaps prison is too stigmatized to make for an effective marketing pitch. note that the parenthetical &#8212; <em>(for tax evasion)<\/em> &#8212; appears to have been added after the rest of the sign was prepared. this presumably destigmatizes the seller so as to overcome customers&#8217; fears of visiting a prisoner&#8217;s home. it could also draw buyers, signalling that high-quality goods will be available at the sale. that said, bernard madoff would have a tough time attracting customers if he offered a full-disclosure parenthetical: (<em>for securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, perjury and making false filings with the SEC<\/em>). i suspect he&#8217;ll use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/\">christie&#8217;s<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via mnspeak and stuff about minneapolis: this sign dates to the early days of the incarceration boom. with so many going to prison each year, i&#8217;m surprised that i&#8217;ve never seen such an advertisement before. more typically, i see divorce cited as the reason that a car or household goods must be sold. perhaps prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}