{"id":2263,"date":"2010-12-07T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2010-12-07T05:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:00:51","slug":"xmas-on-the-other-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"Xmas, on the other hand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished shopping for 80% of my list, minus the child we&#8217;ve &#8220;adopted&#8221;. The way the &#8220;adoption&#8221; website is set up, you can pick a child or you can pick that child and her siblings (1 sibling, 4, whatever). You can see what the first child is asking for (books, shoes, jewelry) but you don&#8217;t know what the sibling(s) want until you&#8217;ve selected them. Therefore, child #1 could want Peace on Earth and a box of Macaroni &amp; Cheese, but her 3 sisters could each want an adult sized bike and an XBox and then what do you do?<\/p>\n<p>(then again, maybe if I adopted a family of 6 kids and bought them all bicycles, my karmic reward would be huge!)<\/p>\n<p>Soooo, yes, we ended up adopting only the one child and I&#8217;m going to supplement this with some additional Toys For Tots purchases (note to self: tell Gene we have &#8220;adopted&#8221; a child). But that&#8217;s a good start, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished shopping for 80% of my list, minus the child we&#8217;ve &#8220;adopted&#8221;. The way the &#8220;adoption&#8221; website is set up, you can pick a child or you can pick that child and her siblings (1 sibling, 4, whatever). You can see what the first child is asking for (books, shoes, jewelry) but you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-cheesecake-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}