{"id":551,"date":"2002-05-21T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/birthday-presents\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:43:37","slug":"birthday-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/birthday-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday presents!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some very silly parents.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that this is just an entirely mindblowing revelation, for anyone who knows me well, or has met them.<\/p>\n<p>I got my first box of birthday presents from them a couple days ago. Two items, both of which made me laugh a lot. The first was a black t-shirt bearing the text, &#8220;I&#8217;m only wearing black until they make something darker.&#8221; They know me so well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The second I&#8217;m almost positive was primarily, if not entirely, my mom&#8217;s idea. See, my mom has a fascination (and an unhealthy one, at that, in my slightly smart-alecky opinion) with silly little noisemakers &#8212; for instance, some of our family trip back in <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/index.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: December 2000\">December of 2000<\/a> was devoted to searching for things like the &#8220;Big Mouth Bass&#8221; or whatever that singing fish was that was so popular a while ago. Now, these little gadgets happen to annoy me to pieces, so I teased mom mercilessly about this during the trip.<\/p>\n<p>So what do I get for my birthday? I got a &#8220;My Pet Ferret (With realistic Movement and Ferret Chatter) &#8212; Touch and Sound Activated!&#8221; I laughed pretty hard when I saw that&#8230;both because of the teasing I&#8217;d given mom over toys of this sort, and because for a time before I moved to Seattle, I used to have <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/03\/relaxation_upgr.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Relaxation, upgrades -- and furrets!\">two ferrets of my own<\/a>. So now, every so often, when I make enough noise, I&#8217;m greeted with some happy little ferret chatter coming out of the corner of my room where he sits.<\/p>\n<p>As I said &#8212; I&#8217;ve got very silly parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some very silly parents. I&#8217;m sure that this is just an entirely mindblowing revelation, for anyone who knows me well, or has met them. I got my first box of birthday presents from them a couple days ago. Two items, both of which made me laugh a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}