{"id":10897,"date":"2012-12-25T07:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2012-12-25T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:29:53","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any of Julianne&#8217;s awesome list of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2012\/12\/19\/ten-toys-that-you-wont-mind-buying\/\">holiday presents for inquisitive youngsters<\/a>. But we did get my nephew a chemistry set (hopefully he will explore it more systematically than I did when I was his age), and my niece an erector set that lets you build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thamesandkosmos.com\/products\/construction\/ebv.html\">different kinds of moving vehicles<\/a>. Her first reaction, &#8220;Was this supposed to be for my brother?&#8221;, gave away very quickly to &#8220;I have never been more excited!!!&#8221; when she built a little car that zoomed around on its own using nothing but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnesium-air_fuel_cell\">salt water<\/a> for fuel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doonesbury.slate.com\/strip\/archive\/2012\/12\/25\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1356416527.gif\" alt=\"waronxmas\" width=\"600\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10898\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a warm and safe holiday season, whether your tradition includes exchanging presents with family members or ordering Chinese food and watching videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any of Julianne&#8217;s awesome list of holiday presents for inquisitive youngsters. But we did get my nephew a chemistry set (hopefully he will explore it more systematically than I did when I was his age), and my niece an erector set that lets you build different kinds of moving vehicles. Her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}