{"id":2990,"date":"2013-12-10T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T02:54:08","slug":"fun-with-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2013\/12\/10\/fun-with-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a danger in completing your Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving: the kids change their minds. L.\u00a0made a brand-new Christmas list yesterday. Luckily one thing on it is up in the attic, so she won\u2019t be totally disappointed.<\/p>\n

I know many of you saw this last week, but it was absolutely worth making sure no one missed it. Enjoy Deadspin\u2019s Drew Magary ripping apart his seven-year-old daughter\u2019s Christmas list. Long-time friend of the blog Stacey B. said it looked like something I would do. I am both honored with the comparison and upset I didn\u2019t do it first. But my girls aren\u2019t nearly as ridiculous as his daughter is.<\/p>\n

\n “1,000 bucks.” This is Christmas, not an Italian wedding. Uncle Vito isn’t gonna slip you an envelope in between stints at the raw bar. We put thought into our gifts here. You want cash? Clear the spiders out of the attic. I’ll give you three bucks for it. A thousand dollars. Jesus Christ. I’m sorry, but you cannot have this.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Kid\u2019s Insane Christmas Wish List, Annotated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a danger in completing your Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving: the kids change their minds. L.\u00a0made a brand-new Christmas list yesterday. Luckily one thing on it is up in the attic, so she won\u2019t be totally disappointed. I know many of you saw this last week, but it was absolutely worth making sure no one missed it. Enjoy Deadspin\u2019s Drew Magary ripping apart his seven-year-old daughter\u2019s Christmas list. Long-time friend of the blog Stacey B. said it looked like something I would do. I am both honored with the comparison and upset I didn\u2019t do it first. But my girls aren\u2019t nearly as ridiculous as his daughter is. “1,000 bucks.” This is Christmas, not an Italian wedding. Uncle Vito isn’t gonna slip you an envelope in between stints at the raw bar. We put thought into our gifts here. You want cash? Clear the spiders out of the attic. I’ll give you three bucks for it. A thousand dollars. Jesus Christ. I’m sorry, but you cannot have this. My Kid\u2019s Insane Christmas Wish List, Annotated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,119,19],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-humor","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14390,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/14390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}