{"id":12321,"date":"2012-12-26T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12321"},"modified":"2012-12-26T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:59:20","slug":"highlights-from-a-very-noggle-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/highlights-from-a-very-noggle-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from a Very Noggle Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from Christmas 2012 at Nogglestead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ammunition was given as a gift, ammunition was received as a gift.<br \/>This&#8230;.is&#8230;.. SPRINGFIELD!  Of course it was.  Earlier this year, I accompanied my mother-in-law to the gun range so she could become familiar with her .38, so I got her a box of .38 rounds to encourage her to go in 2013.  She got me a box, too, to encourage me to come with her.  Her gift to me came in a bit of trickery; I had asked for a woodworking router for Christmas, and I unwrapped an Asus wireless router box, at which point my wife said, &#8220;Mom, that&#8217;s the wrong kind of router!&#8221; and they played it up as though it was a mistake.  After they led me on for a bit, my mother-in-law told me to open the box, and inside was another wrapped box with a distinctive jingle of brass.  At which point, my wife and I laughed harder because we had a box about the same size for her.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/slave-leia-as-youve-never-seen-her-before\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mizzou Leia<\/a><\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>My boys discovered that they could combine the marbles from their new Hungry Hungry Hippos game with the electronic car launcher from their new Hot Wheels set to create a devastatingly effective marble launching siege engine.  That one chimp with the bone from the beginning of <em>2001<\/em>?  My direct ancestor, brother.<\/ul>\n<p>I hope yours was just as good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from Christmas 2012 at Nogglestead: Ammunition was given as a gift, ammunition was received as a gift.This&#8230;.is&#8230;.. SPRINGFIELD! Of course it was. Earlier this year, I accompanied my mother-in-law to the gun range so she could become familiar with her .38, so I got her a box of .38 rounds to encourage her to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}