{"id":542,"date":"2003-12-16T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2003-12-16T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T01:35:50","slug":"making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/16\/making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a list and checking it twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK. I have moved into full-force Christmas mode. My room looks like Ms. Santa&#8217;s workshop: piles of gifts stuffed in shopping bags, slivers of wrapping paper on the floor, spools of ribbon on my dresser. I don&#8217;t know where the scissors are, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re around here somewhere. They are the most popular office supply this time of year. Scotch tape is second.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen&#8217;s getting some action, too. I&#8217;ve already made one lemon cheesecake this week, and I&#8217;m making another next week. If I have time, I&#8217;d also like to make caramel-pecan brownies and ginger molasses cookies. I am only a good baker because I make the desserts that I love. I can&#8217;t imagine ever learning, for example, how to make fruitcake or pumpkin pie.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, my roommate Rima and I are finally picking up a Christmas tree, stringing lights and hanging ornaments. The <a href=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/yesterday\/000224.html\">stockings<\/a> have looked so lonely on the mantel, so I&#8217;m excited to give them some company. I can&#8217;t wait to smell the fresh pine every time I enter the room. It makes the chill that greets me each night completely worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. I have moved into full-force Christmas mode. My room looks like Ms. Santa&#8217;s workshop: piles of gifts stuffed in shopping bags, slivers of wrapping paper on the floor, spools of ribbon on my dresser. I don&#8217;t know where the scissors are, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re around here somewhere. They are the most popular office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}