{"id":27538,"date":"2021-01-20T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27538"},"modified":"2021-01-20T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:59:08","slug":"your-macabre-thought-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/your-macabre-thought-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Macabre Thought for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to start Christmas shopping very early; I have mentioned that, come Christmas day, I am often as surprised as my gift recipients because by the time Christmas rolls around, the Christmas gifts have been wrapped and stored for eight months, and I&#8217;ve forgotten what I got for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The last two years, though, I have had to open and occasionally re-gift things that I have bought for people who have died during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/why-i-shop-for-records-at-antique-malls\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">as I was walking in a <strike>antique mall<\/strike> flea market<\/a>, I thought, <em>What if I pass away before Christmas, leaving my Christmas shopping half-done and with people wondering about how I prioritized them, with gifts for people with whom I haven&#8217;t spoken in years but not my immediate family?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether that thought was macabre or merely rationalizing more trips to antique malls and flea markets, I leave to you to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to start Christmas shopping very early; I have mentioned that, come Christmas day, I am often as surprised as my gift recipients because by the time Christmas rolls around, the Christmas gifts have been wrapped and stored for eight months, and I&#8217;ve forgotten what I got for everyone. The last two years, though, [&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-27538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538","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=27538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27539,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538\/revisions\/27539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}