{"id":121,"date":"2008-03-26T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-03-26T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T10:00:11","slug":"birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time occasion lends itself to gift giving, Dave tries to guess what he is getting. More often than not he is right.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, for his birthday, he was convinced that I was getting him an air compressor.  I played along, and fueled the fire. . . for almost 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>So when his actual gift arrived I found the biggest box I could to wrap it in. Unfortunately the box wasn&#8217;t quite big enough to be a convincing air compressor &#8211; but I still had him confused. Here is the wrapped package:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03.26_gift1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I added a few random heavy objects from the garage to give the package some weight, and to further deceive him.<\/p>\n<p>This is what he actually got:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03.26_gift2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its the Canon SD1000. He&#8217;s been wanting his own digital camera, since he usually doesn&#8217;t get free reign of mine. So despite the fact that it wasn&#8217;t an air compressor, I think he really liked it. He has been a little snap happy lately though. I think I&#8217;ve created a monster.<\/p>\n<p>And you guys thought we already took too many pictures. Just you wait. lol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time occasion lends itself to gift giving, Dave tries to guess what he is getting. More often than not he is right. But this year, for his birthday, he was convinced that I was getting him an air compressor. I played along, and fueled the fire. . . for almost 2 weeks. So when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dave","category-family-life","category-techno-geeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}