{"id":1955,"date":"2006-12-14T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2006-12-14T07:08:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T12:08:44","slug":"the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/the-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas craze&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/wii.nintendo.com\/\">The Nintendo Wii<\/a>. I have no idea or care in the world about this thing, but being from a Geek family, there was a small rush about a month ago to go to extreme measures to purchase one, hide it under my bed (still hiding) so it can be a huge surprise. It was not my rush, it was my husband&#8217;s. I actually had no idea what the thing looked like until I started seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p25y36LMZys\">Wii commercials on TV<\/a>. Prior to that, I just kept hearing &#8220;Wii, Wii&#8221; over and over and thought either my kids are learning French or have to go potty. I am only a teeny tiny bit more impressed since seeing the commercials, but again, if it were up to me and not the Geeks, it would not draw my attention.<br \/>\nFrankly, I think my kids deserve coal this year. They are lucky they have two parents because if it were up to me, they would get candy coal. This was a big deal to my husband, so it got thrown into the &#8220;choose your battles&#8221; pile.<br \/>\nSo that is the background about my association with this system. My daughter stumbled upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/home-entertainment\/the-japanese-wii-safety-manual-is-crazy-219119.php\">The Wii Use Safety Manual in Japanese <\/a> yesterday, which I have to admit, is funny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas craze&#8230;The Nintendo Wii. I have no idea or care in the world about this thing, but being from a Geek family, there was a small rush about a month ago to go to extreme measures to purchase one, hide it under my bed (still hiding) so it can be a huge surprise. It was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/the-latest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Latest&#8230;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}