{"id":1410,"date":"2005-05-28T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2005-05-28T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T16:24:29","slug":"the_pleasures_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasures of Local Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had several recent great experiences with local small businesses that are worth sharing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harmony Valley Farm (Saturday morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=farmer%27s+market\">Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a>) offers a 1LB bag of triple washed greens for $7.00.   Great stuff and lasts a week.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/local?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;q=ideal-body-shop&#038;near=Madison,+WI&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=locald&#038;radius=0.0&#038;latlng=43073056,-89401111,1388898584424702713\">Ideal Body Shop<\/a> performed some minor body work on an older car last summer.  Unfortunately, paint on the repaired area recently began to chip.  I drove the car back to Ideal and they replaced the part at no extra cost &#8211; no questions asked!\n<li>I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/local?q=Sentry+Food&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=G&#038;near=Madison,+WI&#038;sc=1&#038;radius=0&#038;latlng=43073056,-89401111,5637220244281806820\">Sentry Hilldale<\/a> to pickup some fruit recently.  While looking over the strawberries, an employee stopped to make sure I chose those that did not have any mold.  Refreshing!\n<li>Flying recently, I&#8217;ve been very pleased with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestairlines.com\">Midwest Airlines<\/a>.  Sign up for their periodic email promotions.   I&#8217;ve flown to several east coast cities for $180 to $210 round trip (keep looking &#8211; Flying from Milwaukee rather than Madison saves you some money) on their &#8220;Signature Service&#8221; &#8211; the traditional Midwest configuration with comfortable domestic business class seating.<\/ul>\n<p>Shop local, it&#8217;s good for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had several recent great experiences with local small businesses that are worth sharing: Harmony Valley Farm (Saturday morning Farmer&#8217;s Market) offers a 1LB bag of triple washed greens for $7.00. Great stuff and lasts a week. Ideal Body Shop performed some minor body work on an older car last summer. Unfortunately, paint on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}