{"id":1033,"date":"2008-11-20T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2008-11-20T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T21:17:47","slug":"bleg-in-search-of-gift-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/bleg-in-search-of-gift-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleg: In Search of Gift Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Gang, I need some advice. I&#8217;m starting to think about my Christmas shopping and I&#8217;m having a tough time coming up with gift ideas for my niece (age 10) and my nephew (age 8).<\/p>\n<p>Part of my quandary comes from the fact that they have damn near everything now. It anyone has any suggestions leave comment or use contact forum.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Gang, I need some advice. I&#8217;m starting to think about my Christmas shopping and I&#8217;m having a tough time coming up with gift ideas for my niece (age 10) and my nephew (age 8). Part of my quandary comes from the fact that they have damn near everything now. It anyone has any suggestions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[333,335,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-1033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"tag-family","8":"tag-gift-ideas","9":"tag-holidays","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":798,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/florida-7th-grader-called-racist-for-wearing-palin-t-shirt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":0},"title":"Florida 7th Grader Called Racist For Wearing Palin T-shirt","author":"Jeff","date":"October 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought liberals were supposed to be the tolerant ones??? 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It comes from Tracy at Beyond the Pale: I try not to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Life","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4775,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/obama-campaign-officially-jumps-the-shark\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":3},"title":"Obama Campaign Officially Jumps the Shark","author":"Jeff","date":"October 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, just wow. I think it's safe to say President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has officially jumped the shark. I don't know what else to say about their newly released ad featuring actress Lena Dunham comparing voting to losing her virginity: President Obama's campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/o6G3nwhPuR4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":914,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/sarah-palin-i-havent-always-just-toed-the-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":4},"title":"Sarah Palin: &#8216;I Haven&#8217;t Always Just Toed the Line&#8217;","author":"Jeff","date":"November 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Whatever reservations I have about Sarah Palin's qualifications are largely muted by the fact that I like her. 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All this finger pointing ignores one simple truth: Republicans had ZERO chance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}