{"id":1847,"date":"2011-12-24T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2011-12-24T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T23:44:34","slug":"last-minute-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/last-minute-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Last minute gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;re all hunkered down with the ones you love, in joy and in comfort now, whether you&#8217;re celebrating a holiday or not.<\/p>\n<p>But if it&#8217;s the case where you just realized you didn&#8217;t get anything for Aunt Greta, and the stores are closed and you&#8217;ve run out of options, here are some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Order some MP3s for them. Today (Christmas Eve), the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B0065KT0LE\">soundtrack to that enjoyable new <em>Muppets<\/em> film is just $3.99<\/a>, for example.<\/li>\n<li>Do <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?BT00DDVMVQ\">an Amazon gift certificate<\/a> &#8211; you can have it delivered by email, in values ranging from 15 cents to thousands of dollars. out<\/li>\n<li>But here is my favorite: pre-order something, then simple email or print out a page on whatever it is you&#8217;re giving. Why is this good? Because it looks less like &#8220;I forgot to buy you a gift&#8221; and more like &#8220;I found the perfect thing, and it wasn&#8217;t out yet, but I bought it for you anyway!&#8221; And they think kindly of you when you tell them what they&#8217;re getting, and then again months later when they actually get it. So what are the AAUGH.com recommendations for advanced gifts? Peanuts books! For the younger set,<a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1608862607\"> the upcoming collection of the new Peanuts comic books<\/a>, which is slated to land in August. Admittedly, that&#8217;s a long period of anticipation. For the older set, <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1606995235\">volume 17 of <em>The Complete Peanuts<\/em><\/a>, due in April.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now excuse me, a bowl of festive holiday snacks demands my attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;re all hunkered down with the ones you love, in joy and in comfort now, whether you&#8217;re celebrating a holiday or not. But if it&#8217;s the case where you just realized you didn&#8217;t get anything for Aunt Greta, and the stores are closed and you&#8217;ve run out of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}