{"id":577,"date":"2007-09-08T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/09\/the-dreaded-question\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:20:45","slug":"the-dreaded-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/09\/08\/the-dreaded-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The dreaded question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my mom asked me the question that I should know to expect at this time every year.  It always manages to catch me by surprise, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want for Christmas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And every year, I&#8217;m stumped.  I have no clue.  And it&#8217;s usually the same problem &#8212; what does someone over 16 put on the gift-list?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLast year, mom told me it was okay to ask for things like videogames, so I did, and I got a wonderful mix of useful household items [lots of silicone for my kitchen] and stuff for my DS.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m having the same problem.  What do I want?  There&#8217;s a Zelda game coming out for the DS, but I absolutely do not want to wait for that any longer than I already have.  There&#8217;s a new Brain Age game, though, and I still don&#8217;t have Tetris DS.  I guess those might be good for the list.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to sit here and stare at the TV for a while, see if I can think of anything.  I probably can&#8217;t right now, but&#8230;oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my mom asked me the question that I should know to expect at this time every year. It always manages to catch me by surprise, though. &#8220;What do you want for Christmas?&#8221; And every year, I&#8217;m stumped. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/09\/08\/the-dreaded-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-giftmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-9j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}