{"id":5581,"date":"2009-12-23T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2009-12-23T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:18:41","slug":"second-secret-santa-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5581","title":{"rendered":"Second Secret Santa (Sorta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the participants in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5121\">Secret Santa Can Suck It<\/a> virtual gift exchange has a bad case of the flu, and she sent me a note yesterday tearfully apologizing to her assigned giftee for not having a chance to follow through with a pretend present.  No problem!  My bag of gifts is large and I&#8217;m sure I can rummage around and find something appropriate for a second recipient.<\/p>\n<p>This gift is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellesbelles86.wordpress.com\">Melissa<\/a>, and it&#8217;s almost a no-brainer.  Melissa loves crafts and sewing, so she gets a big craft room of her very own:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/craftroom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Room\" title=\"Craft Room\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/craftroom-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/craftroom-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/craftroom.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.younge.com\/sewing_room_pages\/photo_gallery.htm\">Younge<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The gift includes a fabric storage area stocked with bolts of velvet, brocade, and satin; a new sewing machine and serger; and a crew of shirtless workmen to help with organization.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays, Melissa!  (You, uh, might want to claim your gift quickly before I change my mind and keep it myself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the participants in our Secret Santa Can Suck It virtual gift exchange has a bad case of the flu, and she sent me a note yesterday tearfully apologizing to her assigned giftee for not having a chance to follow through with a pretend present. No problem! My bag of gifts is large and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}