{"id":11689,"date":"2010-12-09T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2010-12-09T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T01:26:16","slug":"1-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/09\/1-to-40\/","title":{"rendered":"1 to 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The obligatory birthday post.:)<\/p>\n<p>There was a funny conversation at home just now when I was getting prepped for work. Ling had laid out two presents on the bed; one was a new polo-shirt (I love these!), and the other was a small box of about 5 by 5 inches. Did the birthday kiss thing, and went about examining the box.<\/p>\n<p>I feigned a disappointed look at the box, and said to her:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><font face=\"Courier New\">&quot;Dear, where&#8217;s my new iPad???&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ling said in a small voice:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><font face=\"Courier New\">&quot;I did think about buying it for your birthday, dear &#8211; but I was afraid you&#8217;d say something about not supporting the Evil Empire. :( &quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I grumbled a little in response, but under the breadth.<\/p>\n<p>And about 30 minutes later while driving to work (she was getting the car today), she out of the blue said again:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><font face=\"Courier New\">&quot;Darling, I&#8217;m sorry for not buying you the iPad&#8230;&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>To which I started laughing! No, I don&#8217;t want the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, one of those soon to be released Windows Mobile 7 Tegra pads look really good though&#8230;:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obligatory birthday post.:) There was a funny conversation at home just now when I was getting prepped for work. Ling had laid out two presents on the bed; one was a new polo-shirt (I love these!), and the other<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/09\/1-to-40\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  1 to 40<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-toys-technology","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}