{"id":2809,"date":"2011-12-20T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:32:32","slug":"the-mystery-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/12\/20\/the-mystery-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously, on Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods…<\/a> I revealed that Little E is gettin’ a bunch of cool stuff for Christmas. He’s old enough for his first “action figure Christmas,” which, in my childhood, was just the best thing ever<\/em>. I don’t have nearly the budget (or the helpful economy) that my folks had when I was growing up, but by golly, this year’s toy haul is gonna be pretty close to an “extravaganza” rating thanks to some judicious shopping.<\/p>\n

There’s just one hitch: a bunch of Super Mario figures I got him were already opened. So how do I wrap those? <\/p>\n

I could’ve gone el-cheapo and just dumped them in a Christmas gift sack, but that’s a bit lazy. I had a couple of boxes sitting around, nice white ones no less, so I decided that one of these would become a Super Mario mystery box, complete with question marks. It’s not a perfect cube, but hopefully the cool factor outstrips that. Heck, maybe he’ll like it enough that that’s where the Super Mario goodies will “live”. Gift wrap = done. Permanent storage = done. Oh, and check out the flipside of the box…<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/p>\n

Cool. You know, if someone could get a license from Nintendo to make gift boxes like this in all shapes and sizes, they’d make a freakin’ killing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Little<\/p>\n

In just a few days, Mario, Luigi, Woody and Buzz will be rescuing Toad and the Pizza Planet alien from… well, I dunno. Batman?<\/a> Daleks?<\/a> And Wall-E will get to clean up after the big battle. It’ll be the best Christmas ever.<\/p>\n

(I can only get away with blogging this because he’s not on the internet yet.)<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas, buddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously, on Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods… I revealed that Little E is gettin’ a bunch of cool stuff for Christmas. He’s old enough for his first “action figure Christmas,” which, in my childhood, was just the best thing ever. I don’t have nearly the budget (or the helpful economy) that my folks had when I was growing up, but by golly, this year’s toy haul is gonna be pretty close to an “extravaganza” rating thanks to some judicious shopping. There’s just one hitch: a bunch of Super Mario figures I got him were already opened. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-baby-makes-three","category-toybox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}