{"id":1092,"date":"2003-11-29T01:24:47","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T06:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/11\/29\/1092\/"},"modified":"2003-11-29T01:24:47","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T06:24:47","slug":"1092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/11\/29\/1092\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally don&#8217;t much like shopping the day after Thanksgiving, not so much because I mind crowds as because it&#8217;s the day Everybody&#8217;s Supposed To Go Shopping and I don&#8217;t like being manipulated by faceless corporations to engage in something that really shouldn&#8217;t involve faceless corporations so much.<\/p>\n<p>As Maria and I did not previously own apartment-decorating paraphernalia, though, and as it was on sale, we went forth to Target and bought a horrifying amount of stuff, including a five-foot-or-something artificial tree (previous trees in my [non-Richmond] places of residence basically included Jon&#8217;s eighteen-inch tree, decorated with a Centre Debate 2000 button) and ordaments.  We spent a LOT, just about everything I saved off the food budget this month by feeding my sister ramen noodles.<\/p>\n<p>But we have shiny things now.  And it&#8217;s snowing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally don&#8217;t much like shopping the day after Thanksgiving, not so much because I mind crowds as because it&#8217;s the day Everybody&#8217;s Supposed To Go Shopping and I don&#8217;t like being manipulated by faceless corporations to engage in something that really shouldn&#8217;t involve faceless corporations so much. As Maria and I did not previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jon-and-amanda","category-maria","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}