{"id":179,"date":"2005-12-20T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2005-12-20T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T22:39:55","slug":"christmas-covetousness-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2005\/12\/20\/christmas-covetousness-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas covetousness begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/9\/75657317_8c2f17c9a4_m.jpg\" alt=\"hermie\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a woman in my office who&#8217;s having a birthday today.  Her cube is right down the hall from mine, so I&#8217;ve been dealing with all sorts of noise and general raucous behavior this morning.<\/p>\n<p>When I strolled back in from lunch, I took a peek into her cube and noticed her desk was cluttered with gift bags of various sizes.  One in particular caught my eye.  It was about the size of a four-slice toaster and featured a great image of Hermie the Elf and Rudolph from the classic Rankin Bass Christmas show.  I knew immediately that I must endeavor to make that bag mine.  But how?  Empty its contents carelessly onto the desk while its owner was away?  Ask politely if I might have the bag?  Just walk in and take it right from under her nose as though I owned it?<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I decided finally that the bag was not to be mine.  Maybe I can track down a store from which I can stockpile some for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a woman in my office who&#8217;s having a birthday today. Her cube is right down the hall from mine, so I&#8217;ve been dealing with all sorts of noise and general raucous behavior this morning. When I strolled back in from lunch, I took a peek into her cube and noticed her desk was cluttered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-2T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}