{"id":626,"date":"2008-01-03T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/626"},"modified":"2008-01-03T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:25:38","slug":"most-satisfying-gifting-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/626","title":{"rendered":"Most satisfying gifting yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually,   all the gifting I&#8217;ve done for &#8220;the holidays&#8221; has been pretty great,   if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n<p>I got Jason a soldering iron,   so he can make me <a href=\"www.ladyada.net\/make\/spokepov\">this<\/a>. I got my sister a FutureBike (once she moves, I&#8217;ll buy her a bike). I sent gift certificates to my siblings for their birthdays (it says &#8220;I love you, but you get to choose&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The best, though, is the gift we&#8217;re sending the niecefews (aside: is there a gender-neutral word for a sibling&#8217;s children?) is something I heard about during (library science) grad school &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/\">One Laptop per Child<\/a> nonprofit. They&#8217;ve figured out a way to make a sturdy (you can dunk it in water), useful (you can view it in sunlight), childfriendly (small keyboard\/rabbit-y looking antenna) laptop for the smallest amount of money possible, so they can be distributed to children who otherwise will never get to become computer literate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.ebaystatic.com\/aw\/pics\/xogiving\/g1g1\/home-laptop_v2.jpg\" alt=\"one laptop per child\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now (I&#8217;m not sure for how long), they&#8217;re offering to let you buy one of these laptops, if you donate one. For $400, we&#8217;re bringing the joy of futureworld to two families, one of which we know and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, all the gifting I&#8217;ve done for &#8220;the holidays&#8221; has been pretty great, if I do say so myself. I got Jason a soldering iron, so he can make me this. I got my sister a FutureBike (once she moves, I&#8217;ll buy her a bike). I sent gift certificates to my siblings for their birthdays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-in-reality-im-six","category-neat-o-sites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}