{"id":1273,"date":"2002-10-30T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/10\/enabling-the-birthday-boy.html"},"modified":"2002-10-30T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T17:23:00","slug":"enabling-the-birthday-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/10\/enabling-the-birthday-boy.html","title":{"rendered":"Enabling the Birthday Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick peek at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=jennyspage-20&amp;path=registry\/KE9BZ5WNAU0B\">Adam&#8217;s wish list<\/a>, as he has a birthday coming up (yeah! on December 8th, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll finally be in his thirties, just like me!), and though he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s promised me a list of things he wants, he hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet done it (although I bet this weblog entry corrects <i>that<\/i> situation!). And lo and behold, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on his wish list? Books.  Books as in a bound set of white pages with  tiny black marks, which you need to spend considerable time staring at, turning pages, looking at more black marks on white pages to comprehend. Books as in the type of things you need to spend time (lots of time if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not a speed reader) reading. Um, hello?  This is from the man who spends all of his weblog time bitching that he has too much work to do and way too much reading?  This is from the man who has a stack of books yeah-high that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153going to get to?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  The man is a junkie. He must be stopped! Anyone who sends him books is merely an enabler.  Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it, man!  You want to send Adam something, send him drugs, send him booze, send him tobacco! But friends don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let Adam read books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick peek at Adam&#8217;s wish list, as he has a birthday coming up (yeah! on December 8th, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll finally be in his thirties, just like me!), and though he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s promised me a list of things he wants, he hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet done it (although I bet this weblog entry corrects that situation!). And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}