{"id":1607,"date":"2006-12-25T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2006-12-25T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:14:00","slug":"on-prezzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"On Prezzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a quiet Christmas in Lake Wobegon, my hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, that&#8217;s not right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a quiet Christmas.  Slept late.  Opened presents well past noon.  Ate some cookies.  Drank some nog.<\/p>\n<p>What did I get?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Fossil watch.  Despite the tag saying that I can adjust the links myself, I can&#8217;t get the damned pin out.<\/li>\n<li>Juggling balls.<\/li>\n<li>One of those water-filled baseball toys, where you pump the button and it does things.<\/li>\n<li>A portable DVD player.<\/li>\n<li>The LEGO Viking chess set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My grandmother took forever to open her presents.  Partly she kept forgetting that she <i>had<\/i> presents to open, but mostly it was that she was trying to be delicate with the paper, not wanting to rip it.  So I did my best Robin Williams impression and said loudly (and repeatedly), &#8220;Rip!  Rip!  I don&#8217;t hear ripping!&#8221;  She eventually got the idea.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a quiet, low stress Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And bugger it all, I wanted to see <i>The Children of Men<\/i> today, but it&#8217;s only in a limited release, and I&#8217;m not driving to Georgetown just to see a movie.  I don&#8217;t care what MapQuest says &mdash; thirty-five miles to DC isn&#8217;t going to be a little jaunt.  That said, I haven&#8217;t seen <i>Casino Royale<\/i> yet, so perhaps I&#8217;ll go see that instead this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a quiet Christmas in Lake Wobegon, my hometown. Wait, that&#8217;s not right. It&#8217;s been a quiet Christmas. Slept late. Opened presents well past noon. Ate some cookies. Drank some nog. What did I get? A Fossil watch. Despite the tag saying that I can adjust the links myself, I can&#8217;t get the damned<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1607\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Prezzies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[64,4103,4093],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-christmas","tag-lego","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}