{"id":108,"date":"2006-12-04T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-12-04T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T06:02:22","slug":"christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This town doesn&#8217;t sell a 4-cup measuring cup. Not even the plastic ones. <em>Forget<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrex.com\/\">Pyrex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an hour drive down to <a href=\"http:\/\/palmspringsairport.com\/\">PSP<\/a> (Palm SPrings, from the airport code; has nothing to do with handheld game consoles) and if the trip I made to get my new glasses a couple of weeks ago is any indication, things won&#8217;t be any better there. (But the 2-cup measuring cups will cost half-again as much there, so that&#8217;s <em>something<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I wrote a paragraph for the family Christmas letters. The best part assumes you watched SNL back in the 1970s and saw the routine where Garrett Morris goes into a church for absolution, and the priest (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000101\/\">Dan Akroyd<\/a>) uses a computer as part of the process. But nobody remembers that, so it will have to go, in the final letter. (Not &#8220;go in&#8221;, but &#8220;go, in&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This town doesn&#8217;t sell a 4-cup measuring cup. Not even the plastic ones. Forget Pyrex. It&#8217;s an hour drive down to PSP (Palm SPrings, from the airport code; has nothing to do with handheld game consoles) and if the trip I made to get my new glasses a couple of weeks ago is any indication, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-1K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}