{"id":1208,"date":"2004-10-29T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/29\/happy-birthday-to-me\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T08:08:27","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can&#8217;t take today off from work &#8211; but I can at least take it off from blogging!<\/p>\n<p>On the (very) off chance that anyone is thinking &#8220;geez, I wish I could buy Amp something,&#8221; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/registry.html\/ref=sortbar\/103-0069630-7043861?id=UVT84R6CAIRU&#038;items-per-page=25&#038;sort=price&#038;filter=all\">my wish list<\/a>. (Is it tacky of me to put in such a link? Probably. But heck, it&#8217;s my birthday, I&#8217;ll be tacky if I want to).<\/p>\n<p>I actually enjoy looking at other people&#8217;s wish lists &#8211; sometimes they have unexpected tastes. If you&#8217;ve got one, feel free to post a link to it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at my list, I wonder what&#8217;s unexpected to &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers? Not the comic books, nor the feminist books. But some of the DVDs may be unexpected (have I ever mentioned that I like some anime, or the Marx Brothers?) Hard to say. For folks who don&#8217;t know me in real life, the Stephen Sondheim fixation might be surprising, too.<\/p>\n<p>Have a happy Halloween, and see y&#8217;all next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can&#8217;t take today off from work &#8211; but I can at least take it off from blogging! On the (very) off chance that anyone is thinking &#8220;geez, I wish I could buy Amp something,&#8221; here&#8217;s my wish list. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}