{"id":76,"date":"2006-12-09T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T08:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-12-09T00:45:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T08:45:38","slug":"silver-ball-silver-ball-its-christmas-time-for-the-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"silver ball, silver ball, it&#8217;s Christmas time for the kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seldom have a lot of money to spend on holiday presents, but that&#8217;s never really been a problem. \u00a0 Because of course the idea is not to <em>spend money<\/em>, but to find gifts that the recipient will really like.<\/p>\n<p>When my brothers and I were kids, every Christmas our dad would give us $1 per gift per sibling. \u00a0 And we had to think hard about what kind of nice gift we could get for that amount of money. \u00a0 Granted, in the 50s and 60s a dollar went a lot farther than it does now, but even when I was in my final year of college the per-sibling spending limit had only risen to $5, and there were still plenty of neat things to be had at that price.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, finding a gift on a tight budget requires the gift giver to <em>think<\/em>. \u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s why I spend a lot more time mulling things over than doing the actual shopping. \u00a0 Once I&#8217;ve made up my mind, it usually doesn&#8217;t take long to acquire whatever-it-is and wrap it up.<\/p>\n<p>My family almost always gets me neat things, but I must admit there are several items I&#8217;ve been given over the years that I&#8217;m still scratching my head over. \u00a0 I won&#8217;t go into detail; let&#8217;s just say that the thought really does count and leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I almost took the plunge and bought an item of clothing for my daughter, but I wasn&#8217;t quite that brave. \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Title of the message? \u00a0 Something that came to me one holiday season years ago when I was holding our big fat silvery-grey lump o&#8217;cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seldom have a lot of money to spend on holiday presents, but that&#8217;s never really been a problem. \u00a0 Because of course the idea is not to spend money, but to find gifts that the recipient will really like. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=76\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}