{"id":688,"date":"2008-09-16T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-09-16T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:40:11","slug":"birthday-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/birthday-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s my wife&#8217;s birthday in a few days on the 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a loss of what to get her.\u00a0 STILL?!\u00a0\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Hey it wasn&#8217;t like I wasn&#8217;t watching out&#8230;for the past couple months I had been trying to pay attention to anything she&#8217;s been interested at to see if I can get a hint of what she wants.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s kinda like my dad&#8230;impossible to get anything for them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten her jewelry before.\u00a0 You know, like a hella expensive wedding ring, some nice pendants and bracelets. She always seems to appreciate it&#8230;for about a day.\u00a0 And then it goes into some mystery storage place somewhere and I never see it again except for once every leap year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten her gadgets. Like a Canon camera or even an Ipod once.\u00a0 I got her the iPod and loaded it up with some of her favorite songs right?\u00a0 It sat in a box unopened for a year to the point where the internal battery was almost pronounced dead on arrival when we finally took it out one day.\u00a0 Uses these things for a while.\u00a0 Goes into storage.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures?\u00a0 Picture frames?\u00a0 Nope&#8230;she&#8217;s not a very sentimental type.\u00a0 She&#8217;s got old photos but they&#8217;re stuffed away (you guessed it) in storage. She&#8217;s always vacuuming up stuff that I find very sentimental to me and when I freak out she&#8217;s like, &#8220;<em>oh&#8230;.whoops, sorry<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe eating things?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going out to eat of course but beyond that I&#8217;m stumped.<\/p>\n<p>I KNOW!!\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to get her a storage shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s my wife&#8217;s birthday in a few days on the 22nd. I&#8217;m at a loss of what to get her.\u00a0 STILL?!\u00a0\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Hey it wasn&#8217;t like I wasn&#8217;t watching out&#8230;for the past couple months I had been trying to pay attention to anything she&#8217;s been interested at to see if I can get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}