{"id":133,"date":"2005-12-16T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2005\/12\/16\/oh-how-i-love-surprises\/"},"modified":"2005-12-16T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:04:22","slug":"oh-how-i-love-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Oh how I love surprises!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t surprises great?  I guess that&#8217;s why gift giving is so much fun.  I love to give and get surprises.  And a totally unexpected one showed up on my porch today (Thanks, Tina!), that made my day!  We&#8217;re doing our own batch of surprises in the form of the 12 days of Christmas for a friend.  othing fancy, just little things with corny rhymes or puns.  Today is day 4, which will be Kazoos &#8220;for calling birds&#8221;.  We almost missed day three, as I realized while at Ryan&#8217;s company party that I hadn&#8217;t bought the gift certificates to Wendy&#8217;s, which were to be the &#8220;3 french fries&#8221; on day three.  We had to stop at a Wendy&#8217;s on the way home, and Ryan took it over and stuck it to their front door at about 10:30 last night.  Oops.   We also gave for day one&#8211;a partridge and some pears, and day two was &#8220;two turtles&#8221; (the chocolate kind).  It&#8217;s all about the surprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t surprises great? I guess that&#8217;s why gift giving is so much fun. I love to give and get surprises. And a totally unexpected one showed up on my porch today (Thanks, Tina!), that made my day! We&#8217;re doing our own batch of surprises in the form of the 12 days of Christmas for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}