{"id":355,"date":"2005-12-21T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/355"},"modified":"2005-12-21T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T20:07:23","slug":"secular-gifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/355","title":{"rendered":"Secular gifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something really nice about thinking of someone you love,   and thinking of something you could buy them. For instance,   given a bottomless wallet, I would buy my friend Angela a professional membership to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">LibraryThing<\/a> or my brother a kayak.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t like about Christmas. I think it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t get to savor the individual gifts I&#8217;m giving people, nor do I get to savor the gifts I get. Just today, I packed up a whole bunch of presents to send, and the doorbell rang. It was the always and standardly attractive guy from UPS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/75999856\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/41\/75999856_1581f65966_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"IMG_7748.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So then I totally forgot about the satisfaction of buying the perfect book for a 9 year old, and proceeded to pet my new sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/75999873\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/39\/75999873_2c9515ddc8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"IMG_7752.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting this particular machine for about a year now, ever since I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/08\/70_sewing_machine_re.html\">this<\/a>. Jason got it for me as a non-Christmas, just happens to be during the holidays, we don&#8217;t usually exchange gifts-gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something really nice about thinking of someone you love, and thinking of something you could buy them. For instance, given a bottomless wallet, I would buy my friend Angela a professional membership to LibraryThing or my brother a kayak. But there&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t like about Christmas. I think it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-heart-robots","category-rantlet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}