{"id":492,"date":"2006-09-06T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=492"},"modified":"2006-09-06T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T16:56:09","slug":"hell-bent-for-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/09\/06\/hell-bent-for-leather\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell bent for leather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who was it who came up with all these silly anniversary gifts?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, it&#8217;s helpful to have some general areas to use in coming up with a gift idea, but <em>tin <\/em>anniversary?\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Copper<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 Are blacksmiths to blame for this hierarchy?\u00c2\u00a0 Diamonds and silver I can understand, but celebrating a second anniversary with some sort of cotton gift?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like buying a suit for a three-year high school reunion.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n<p>The three-year anniversary gift is leather (traditional) or crystal\/glass (modern).\u00c2\u00a0 Leather, of course, opens up all sorts of interesting gift ideas, some of which even show up on your door wrapped in plain brown paper with a suitably anonymous return address.\u00c2\u00a0 Would a package of light bulbs count in the glass category?\u00c2\u00a0 We always need replacement bulbs, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>As of this posting, I can&#8217;t reveal which way I went with this year&#8217;s gift for Leah (she could be reading this, after all).\u00c2\u00a0 I will say, however, that I&#8217;m very much looking forward to next year&#8217;s gift shopping: Fruit\/flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 How easy is <em>that<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was it who came up with all these silly anniversary gifts?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, it&#8217;s helpful to have some general areas to use in coming up with a gift idea, but tin anniversary?\u00c2\u00a0 Copper?\u00c2\u00a0 Are blacksmiths to blame for this hierarchy?\u00c2\u00a0 Diamonds and silver I can understand, but celebrating a second anniversary with some sort [&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-492","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-7W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}