{"id":1296,"date":"2006-10-21T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:38:55","slug":"boys-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Boy&#8217;s Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/PA200118.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/PA200118-225x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I sometimes think my husband gets a kick out of sending me to buy the biggest and heaviest tools as gifts for him.  Very seldom am I sent to find anything that I can easily carry or wrap nicely.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">His birthday is this Sunday, and rather than totally spacing his birthday as I often do, I knew just what to buy for him this year because he kindly pointed it out to me on our last visit to Lowe&#8217;s to buy new blinds.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The object of his desire is that Bosch Power Box.  I&#8217;m not exactly clear on what it does, besides that it plays music, stuff plugs into it, and you can drop it from a few stories up without breaking it.  Most importantly, his friend Pete has one; I think that must be why he wants one.  Toy envy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">It was light enough that I was able to carry it out of the store without any construction workers feeling sorry for me, but I don&#8217;t have a clue how I&#8217;ll wrap it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I wonder if my husband feels as out of his element when shopping for gifts as I do.  Does he roam around the bookstore or camera shop with no real idea what he&#8217;s buying, like I do when browsing the tool section?  Does he wish that I liked jewelry or perfume or some other easy to purchase thing?  What do wives buy for their husbands besides tools?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes think my husband gets a kick out of sending me to buy the biggest and heaviest tools as gifts for him. Very seldom am I sent to find anything that I can easily carry or wrap nicely.His birthday is this Sunday, and rather than totally spacing his birthday as I often do, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boy&#8217;s Toys<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}