{"id":50095,"date":"2023-10-21T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50095"},"modified":"2023-10-21T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:46:13","slug":"year-50-day-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/21\/year-50-day-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 172"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/y50d172-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me in front of IKEA wire racks of stuffed toys, including teddy bears in space suits and UFOs, and with a little green alien toy on one of the UFOs.\" title=\"y50d172.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 172: We went by IKEA this morning, and discovered that there&#8217;s currently a space theme in the kid&#8217;s sections, with lots of cute goodies. All we came home with was one of the little green aliens (visible at the top right of the photo), but I thought some of my friends might be interested.<\/p>\n<p>We were disappointed to discover that since the last time we were at IKEA, they&#8217;ve joined the realm of stores that are almost entirely self-checkout. That&#8217;s going to reduce how likely we are to shop there in person.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonus photo (apologies in advance for some silly minor innuendo):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/y50d172b1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me in IKEA, with a rather alarmed expression under my mask.\" title=\"y50d172b1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were by the throw pillow covers when I saw this. Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but even with being a fan of Vulcans in general, and one Vulcan in particular, I&#8217;m just not sure I want to rest my face on Sp\u00f6ck&#8217;s s\u00e4ck\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA has a bunch of cute space-themed toys right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[4284,5686],"class_list":["post-50095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-ikea","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50095","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=50095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}