{"id":2566,"date":"2013-09-18T21:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2013-09-18T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:27:33","slug":"elis-christmas-list-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Eli&#8217;s Christmas List, So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lists have a way of illustrating what a person is really like sometimes.  Eli, as you can see, is an imaginative optimist.  Christmas is three months away, of course, but dreaming is what he does 365 days a year.<\/p>\n<p>He makes me laugh &#8212; all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The list (so far):<\/p>\n<p>1 kilo black ball with white writing saying one kilo<\/p>\n<p>an anvil<\/p>\n<p>an antique cash register<\/p>\n<p>a fake skeleton<\/p>\n<p>a crash test dummy<\/p>\n<p>some knight armor<\/p>\n<p>a leather underwater ninja suit<\/p>\n<p>a saint bernard collar barrel<\/p>\n<p>a saint bernard<\/p>\n<p>a rubber ducky that quacks when you squeeze it<\/p>\n<p>a star &#8212; preferably a middle aged one, blue in color, and located in the Milky Way <\/p>\n<p>an anchor<\/p>\n<p>some gold foil<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists have a way of illustrating what a person is really like sometimes. Eli, as you can see, is an imaginative optimist. Christmas is three months away, of course, but dreaming is what he does 365 days a year. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}