{"id":575,"date":"2008-12-26T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T03:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=575"},"modified":"2008-12-26T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T03:09:37","slug":"oooh-whadjaget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Oooh, whadjaget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the time I wanted to myself for Christmas, I also got some nifty things.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\">Got some lovely books (Neil Zlozower&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Van-Halen-Visual-History-1978\/dp\/0811863042\" target=\"_blank\">book of Van Halen photos<\/a>, some musical instruction, and some deep-thinking-about-game-criticism stuff), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbrotoyshop.com\/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=493&amp;SBR=327&amp;ID=15642\" target=\"_blank\">Darth Tater<\/a>, a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbrotoyshop.com\/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=495&amp;SBR=601&amp;ID=23004\" target=\"_blank\">Han Solo Hoth Mighty Muggs<\/a>, an aluminum wallet (!), and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalslug7-us.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metal Slug 7<\/a><\/em> for DS (a big deal for a <em>Slug <\/em>nut like me). Also, <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-com-Exclusive-Locust-action-figure\/dp\/B001E4SSO6\/ref=pd_bxgy_t_text_b\" target=\"_blank\">the most awesome Gears of War action figure ever made<\/a>, which will only be cool to people who snipe. (And for being extra good this year, I am told that an <a href=\"http:\/\/us.creative.com\/products\/product.asp?category=209&amp;subcategory=669&amp;product=17791\" target=\"_blank\">X-Fi sound card<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymourduncan.com\/products\/electric\/humbucker\/progressive\/sh4_jb_model\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new pickup<\/a> for one of my guitars are both en route. Apparently, the reindeer got delayed.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also, I don&#8217;t know where you find metal guitar ice cube trays,\u00c2\u00a0but my dad did.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/guitarice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The necks are swizzle sticks. Awesome. Brownie points for anybody who can name the three models of guitar represented here.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think the niftiest gift is one I knew about ahead of time. Instead of getting the Fender Custom Shop calendar again, Kat made me <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/dans_guitarchive_2009_calendar-158156247247543920\" target=\"_blank\">a custom calendar of my actual guitars<\/a>, which is super cool. (She also got me actual &#8220;geek&#8221; business cards with my photo on them, so I could be a card-carrying geek.)<\/p>\n<p>I had a nice holiday and I am grateful that people like me enough to get me stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the time I wanted to myself for Christmas, I also got some nifty things. Got some lovely books (Neil Zlozower&#8217;s book of Van Halen photos, some musical instruction, and some deep-thinking-about-game-criticism stuff), Darth Tater, a\u00c2\u00a0Han Solo Hoth Mighty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}