{"id":371,"date":"2003-12-23T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/gift_giving\/"},"modified":"2003-12-23T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2003-12-23T21:01:39","slug":"gift_giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/gift_giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, gift giving isn&#8217;t your thing, perhaps you can take some solace in reading of bombs like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/national\/index.ssf?\/base\/national-0\/1072176241240271.xml\">Man Says He Gave Wife Toilet Seat as Gift<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nGary and Karri Clark haven&#8217;t forgotten their second Christmas together. He knew she wanted bathroom accessories, so he wrapped up a couple of gifts and waited.<br \/>\nThe toilet seat and towel rack didn&#8217;t go over too well.<br \/>\n&#8220;Here I thought I was doing good,&#8221; he recalled with a laugh. &#8220;It was something she can always use, day after day. It&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving.&#8221;<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nKarri Clark admits she wanted a new toilet seat a decade ago because there was a crack in the old one. She just didn&#8217;t think she&#8217;d get one gift wrapped.<br \/>\n&#8220;I could not believe it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What man gives you a toilet seat for Christmas? A fricking toilet seat, and it wasn&#8217;t even that expensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/counterspin.blogspot.com\/2003_12_21_counterspin_archive.html#107218811094003698\">Counterspin Central<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/gift_giving\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gift Giving\"><p>If, like me, gift giving isn&#8217;t your thing, perhaps you can take some solace in reading of bombs like this: &#8220;Man Says He Gave Wife Toilet Seat as Gift&#8221; Gary and Karri Clark haven&#8217;t forgotten their second Christmas together. He knew she wanted bathroom accessories, so he wrapped up a couple of gifts and waited. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}