{"id":242,"date":"2008-12-22T18:08:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-12-22T18:08:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:08:55","slug":"a-not-wished-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"A not-wished list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of things we don&#8217;t have around here:\u00c2\u00a0 cell phones, iPods, leaf blowers, Blackberries, GPS, cable, satellite, HDTV, debt\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe list goes on and on.\u00c2\u00a0 We do have a bread machine and an espresso maker and a digital camera, all of which get heavy use.\u00c2\u00a0 I listen to music on my laptop, but don&#8217;t like to be enveloped in my personal music while navigating the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Rakes and brooms are superior technology to blowing devices.\u00c2\u00a0 We do have wireless fast internet.\u00c2\u00a0 I watch TV shows I follow\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<em>Terminator<\/em>, <em>Lost\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/em>on my computer.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d get me for Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a Kindle.\u00c2\u00a0 I could be tempted by a Kindle\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not at that price.\u00c2\u00a0 People whine hardbacks are too expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 When it warms up a little, it&#8217;s time to take the bike out for a spin.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been on it since my surgery.\u00c2\u00a0 I will be cooking a Christmas dinner for various friends and neighbors who don&#8217;t want to spend the evening arguing with relatives.\u00c2\u00a0 I love Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of things we don&#8217;t have around here:\u00c2\u00a0 cell phones, iPods, leaf blowers, Blackberries, GPS, cable, satellite, HDTV, debt\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe list goes on and on.\u00c2\u00a0 We do have a bread machine and an espresso maker and a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}