{"id":1679,"date":"2004-12-01T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2004-12-01T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T01:04:18","slug":"christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/12\/christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my suggestions for everyone on your Christmas list:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(1) If you have never been to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/demotivators\/\">www.despair.com<\/a>, go.  You know those cheesy motivational posters?  Well, these are the opposite.  And they are funny.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Seriously, though, a few years ago, I got tired of buying things for people who have everything they need and want.  So, we make charitable contributions in honor of our relatives, along with a token gift.  For example, we&#8217;ll send a little first aid kit for the car along with a contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>.  Or, a small Christmas tree ornament of an animal along with a donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\/\">The Heifer Project<\/a>.  Or, a small tool and a donation to <a href=\"www.habitat.org\"\/>Habitat for Humanity<\/a>.  You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my suggestions for everyone on your Christmas list:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}