{"id":4175,"date":"2008-02-16T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/16\/another-valentines-day-present\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:49:57","slug":"another-valentines-day-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/16\/another-valentines-day-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Valentine&#8217;s Day Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5628,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.librarything.com\\\/work\\\/26679\\\/27054030&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5578,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/o\\\/registry\\\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/o\\\/registry\\\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day morning, as I was puttering about the house and getting ready for the day while Prairie slept in, there was a knock at the door. When I answered, I was handed a package from Amazon by one of our landlords. This was a little confusing, as I didn&#8217;t remember ordering anything, but it was definitely addressed to me. Okay, whatever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/26679\/27054030\" title=\"LibraryThing: The Cult of Mac\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1593271220.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"176\" alt=\"The Cult of Mac\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>When I opened it, I was quite pleasantly surprised to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/26679\/27054030\" title=\"LibraryThing: The Cult of Mac\">The Cult of Mac<\/a>, which I&#8217;d put on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/registry\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS\" title=\"Amazon: djwudi's wishlist\">Amazon Wishlist<\/a> not too long ago. On the shipping invoice was a nice little note from &#8216;Liz in Pittsburgh,&#8217; who reads this site and decided to send me a Valentine&#8217;s Day present &#8212; cool!<\/p>\n<p>So, many thanks to Liz! I got about halfway through yesterday as I was bussing around town, and have been enjoying all the stories of the Mac &uuml;ber-fans (and, unsurprisingly, seeing elements of myself in more than a few of the stories). I hope your Valentine&#8217;s Day was a good one as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day morning, as I was puttering about the house and getting ready for the day while Prairie slept in, there was a knock at the door. When I answered, I was handed a package from Amazon by one of our landlords. This was a little confusing, as I didn&#8217;t remember ordering anything, but it was definitely addressed to me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2036],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-books","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}