{"id":105,"date":"2003-12-22T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/christmas-shopping\/"},"modified":"2003-12-22T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T00:31:00","slug":"christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Christmas shopping, all in one go. It took four and a half hours including a Maccy D&#8217;s with <a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a> during his lunch break. Quite impressive, no? The shopping centre wasn&#8217;t actually as busy as I&#8217;d expected in the morning, although Argos had gone through 1002 transaction tickets between 10:00 and 10:45am which is quite frankly shocking! After spending 20% of my bank balance and collecting an impressive array of carrier bags we returned home in the car. (eek)<\/p>\n<p>Amanda (an ex gf) visited with new born baby Jack which was a little scary, but he&#8217;s lovely. Picture to follow. There was something quite uncanny about his full name as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Had a phone conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/bouncykaz.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">bouncykaz<\/a> which put my mind at rest in a big way. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> rang and I listened while she tried to set mouse traps in her room but was doing a better job of trapping her fingers than any cute furry rodents. Hilarious (for me, that is.) Poor laura has the lergy and is in need of some TLC.<\/p>\n<p>Talked about some interesting stuff with <a href=\"http:\/\/mchicago.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">mchicago<\/a> before he became to drunk to make any sense. My cornflakes are now thoroughly soggy and I&#8217;m shattered, so off I go to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Christmas shopping, all in one go. It took four and a half hours including a Maccy D&#8217;s with djkoa during his lunch break. Quite impressive, no? The shopping centre wasn&#8217;t actually as busy as I&#8217;d expected in the morning, although Argos had gone through 1002 transaction tickets between 10:00 and 10:45am which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/christmas-shopping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Shopping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}