{"id":925,"date":"2007-12-11T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:30:15","slug":"of-white-elephants-and-yankee-swaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Of white elephants and yankee swaps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/gifts1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142521352253135442\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/gifts1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">or what my favorite sister-in-law likes to call a chinese polyanna &#8211; ever done one? With the family or at work? Maybe with all the neighbors? The idea of this gift exchange is that everyone brings a wrapped gift of similar value. It&#8217;s all anonymous and everyone who is participating draws a number. The person with #1 selects a gift and opens it so all can see what it is. The person with #2 can either &#8220;steal&#8221; #1&#8217;s gift or choose a wrapped gift from the remainder. The game continues for each subsequent player so that higher numbers are more desirable (because you have more open gifts to steal) &#8211; and that&#8217;s the fun of the game &#8211; the stealing!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only ever done these where you have to go out and buy a gift to participate, but at our holiday party at work tomorrow we&#8217;re doing a white elephant with *unwanted or gently used* items from home. Ought to be interesting, I bet. Of course, I throw anything like that away (can&#8217;t stand the clutter!) &#8211; so I wrapped up a little box of Godiva chocolates received as a freebie for spending a bit too much there of late.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear of any wacky gifts you may have received (or gotten rid of) in a similar gift exchange. Stories, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or what my favorite sister-in-law likes to call a chinese polyanna &#8211; ever done one? With the family or at work? Maybe with all the neighbors? The idea of this gift exchange is that everyone brings a wrapped gift of similar value. It&#8217;s all anonymous and everyone who is participating draws a number. The person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of white elephants and yankee swaps&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}