{"id":148,"date":"2004-11-19T23:46:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T23:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-02-28T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:41:38","slug":"virtual-retail-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Retail therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to start my Christmas shopping today. Being the lazy geek I am though, I decided to it all online this year.<br \/>\nUsually when I go shopping, I saunter all the way to Kingston as it has the best quantity and quality of shops this side of Marble Arch. The usual approach involves a lot of leg work though as I wander from store to store trying to think of what to get various people and by the end of it I&#8217;m completely worn out.<br \/>\nToday was different though, I started off with Christmas cards from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/\">Tearfund<\/a> as I always think Christ should be part of Christmas, and these cards all have Scriptural references in them as well as making some practical contribution to the furtherance of God&#8217;s kingdom. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banneroftruth.org\/\">The Banner of Truth Trust<\/a> was my next port of call, with a wide selection of good Reformed books to choose from, although I&#8217;m not mentioning who they&#8217;re for as they might read this. My final web destination was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\">Amazon<\/a>, with a little more discernment required when choosing gifts. After an hour or so browsing the web, I had purchased a significant proportion of required gifts, with only a few people left to think about. Additionally, I&#8217;m still feeling quite awake and able to do more. It was all rather easy &#8211; in fact, so easy, I even bought a little something for myself, let&#8217;s just say I now have no excuses for poor photos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to start my Christmas shopping today. Being the lazy geek I am though, I decided to it all online this year. Usually when I go shopping, I saunter all the way to Kingston as it has the best quantity and quality of shops this side of Marble Arch. The usual approach involves a lot&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=148\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}