{"id":633,"date":"2005-11-29T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=633"},"modified":"2005-11-29T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T03:40:36","slug":"on-christmas-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"On Christmas Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking me, What do I want for Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the things I want&#8211;world peace, an end to hunger, President&#8217;s Bush impeachment, Vice President Cheney&#8217;s indictment for war crimes&#8211;no one can give me.  These are unrealistic wishes.<\/p>\n<p>But for the sake of those having difficulty finding things that I might want, I humbly offer these suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Beatles, by Bob Spitz<\/li>\n<li><i>The Planets<\/i>, by Dava Sobel<\/li>\n<li><i>It&#8217;s Superman<\/i>, by Tim de Haven<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CDs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Choose Love<\/i>&#8211;Ringo Starr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DVDs:<br \/>\nIf someone <i>really<\/i> wants to get me DVDs, how about a season box set of <i>Frasier<\/i>?  The only one I own is the first season.<\/p>\n<p>Though perhaps Sally Brown had the right idea&#8211;Santa, just bring cash. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking me, What do I want for Christmas? Well, the things I want&#8211;world peace, an end to hunger, President&#8217;s Bush impeachment, Vice President Cheney&#8217;s indictment for war crimes&#8211;no one can give me. These are unrealistic wishes. But for the sake of those having difficulty finding things that I might want, I humbly offer<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=633\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Christmas Wishes&#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":[64,4093],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-christmas","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}