{"id":80,"date":"2008-11-10T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:30:38","slug":"that-time-of-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/that-time-of-year-again\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time of Year Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been back from Vegas for a few weeks now &#8211; had fun, took many pictures of the casinos we trekked through, I&#8217;ll try to get those uploaded to a gallery soon.<\/p>\n<p>It seems impossible, but Christmas is once again just around the corner &#8211; as happens every year, I remember now my thoughts of last year, thinking to myself &#8220;Well there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;ll still be in the same horrible state of mind next Christmas as I am this year&#8221;. And the year before that, and before that, going back more years than I care to count.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the reason I&#8217;m thinking of Christmas in early November is because I&#8217;ve had a couple people poking around already for gift ideas for Christmas and my birthday (same day!) &#8211; so, I&#8217;ve updated my Amazon wishlist for friends and family with gift-giving on their minds:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/RSYA1FD9CY3G\/ref=wl_web\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/gifts\/registries\/wishlist\/v2\/web\/wl-btn-74-b._V46774601_.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"My Amazon.com Wish List\" width=\"74\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The big thing for this year of course is the new World of Warcraft expansion, &#8220;Wrath of the Lich King&#8221;. My dad and sister were kind enough to pitch in on that one as an early present, so I should be playing it in less than a week &#8211; woooo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Forum Comments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=26&amp;t=3996\">Forum Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all! I&#8217;ve been back from Vegas for a few weeks now &#8211; had fun, took many pictures of the casinos we trekked through, I&#8217;ll try to get those uploaded to a gallery soon. It seems impossible, but Christmas is once again just around the corner &#8211; as happens every year, I remember now my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}