{"id":1208,"date":"2009-02-06T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:16:38","slug":"is-a-hammer-or-a-zombie-the-better-birthday-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/is-a-hammer-or-a-zombie-the-better-birthday-present","title":{"rendered":"Is a hammer or a zombie the better birthday present?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2009\/02\/joe-birthday3-350x271.jpg\" alt=\"What it&#039;s got in its nasty little pocketses\" title=\"What it&#039;s got in its nasty little pocketses\" width=\"350\" height=\"271\" align='left' hspace='5' vspace='0'\/>My brother&#8217;s birthday is in late September, so he can generally expect to get a skeleton or a box of vampire bats from me.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I made him a groundbreaker for his birthday.  It was the first time that I had made anything like this as a gift.  I <em>think<\/em> he liked it.  I wonder sometimes, though, if he really would rather just unwrap a nice hammer, or a football phone; something that he doesn&#8217;t vaguely expect to lunge out of the box and go for his throat.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are a few pictures.<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1208 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/is-a-hammer-or-a-zombie-the-better-birthday-present\/joe-birthday2'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2009\/02\/joe-birthday2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/is-a-hammer-or-a-zombie-the-better-birthday-present\/joe-birthday12'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2009\/02\/joe-birthday12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/is-a-hammer-or-a-zombie-the-better-birthday-present\/joe-birthday3'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2009\/02\/joe-birthday3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother&#8217;s birthday is in late September, so he can generally expect to get a skeleton or a box of vampire bats from me. Last year I made him a groundbreaker for his birthday. It was the first time that I had made anything like this as a gift. I think he liked it. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}