{"id":6735,"date":"2013-12-20T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:50:45","slug":"the-ghost-of-christmas-past-gifts-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6735","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Of Christmas Past:  Gifts Unwanted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year, we had a new boss at work.\u00a0 And that boss wanted to do something special for us at Christmas.\u00a0 So, he bought us each a special gift.\u00a0 And while the gift was not expensive, it was a nice gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, one of my co-workers was a difficult person who resented any authority.\u00a0 So, when our boss handed him that wrapped gift, he proceeded to thank the boss and then left the gift on his desk, unwrapped, for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, we never got another gift from that boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year, we had a new boss at work.\u00a0 And that boss wanted to do something special for us at Christmas.\u00a0 So, he bought us each a special gift.\u00a0 And while the gift was not expensive, it was a nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6735\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1KD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6736,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}