{"id":4490,"date":"2012-11-25T00:29:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2012-11-25T03:53:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T08:53:40","slug":"east-asheville-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;east asheville hardware&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to offer up this David Wilcox classic in honor of Small Business Saturday:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bgs3tqIEwAU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably good to remember there&#8217;s an East Asheville equivalent in so many of our shopping avenues, so make sure you hit Politics &#038; Prose or Powell&#8217;s before you go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and your IGA store or farmers market before you head to Stop &#038; Shop or Trader Joe&#8217;s. 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