{"id":605,"date":"2008-11-30T19:41:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2008-11-30T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T02:42:10","slug":"i-have-one-uk-wish-list-item-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"I have one (UK) wish list item this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone in the UK family is reading, and hasn&#8217;t yet got me a gift, and intends to get me a gift, the only thing on my wishlist is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Absolutely-Everything-Peter-Baikie\/dp\/B0015B04J0\/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&#038;coliid=I2AKPSR0DPPYR3&#038;colid=YPN0WW5OR4IH\">Absolutely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or alternatively, DON&#8217;T. Just get a gift for mini-Elbeno, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll want to.<\/p>\n<p>I admit that I&#8217;m not a very good gift giver &#8211; I frequently remember 3 weeks beforehand, buy a card, and forget all about it.  But that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not really an eager gift receiver &#8211; the thought is appreciated, but I&#8217;d really as soon have an email or a webcam session as participate in a mass exchange of gifts, and I&#8217;ve long thought that cards are fairly useless, at least between people who correspond more than yearly.<\/p>\n<p>Next year (assuming it&#8217;s too late this year), let&#8217;s figure out a gift exchange on the UK side. On the US family side we&#8217;ve done this for some years; as adults we really don&#8217;t need to be receiving gifts from everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone in the UK family is reading, and hasn&#8217;t yet got me a gift, and intends to get me a gift, the only thing on my wishlist is Absolutely. Or alternatively, DON&#8217;T. Just get a gift for mini-Elbeno, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll want to. I admit that I&#8217;m not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}