{"id":177,"date":"2004-10-15T18:49:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/early_ideas\/"},"modified":"2004-10-15T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:49:02","slug":"early_ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/living-in-the-uk\/early_ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Early ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look&#8230;I know its early, and I know how much I complain about the Christmas stock being around now -before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pumpkin.com\/\">Halloween<\/a> and the joys of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremepumpkins.com\/\">pumpkin carving<\/a>. Supermarkets have shelves to fill, and its just so boring when you see wrapping paper, card and strange Christmas themed kitchenware. Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>So try to remember that there are lots of other places to go &#8211; go seek out talented individuals who make things themselves; (look in these pages for ideas) buy items that are made to last a long time; buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweaver.ie\/britishheart\/e_article000302754.cfm?x=b3FKfNf,b26vLg4C\">charities<\/a> and don&#8217;t spend stupid money on electronic goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look&#8230;I know its early, and I know how much I complain about the Christmas stock being around now -before Halloween and the joys of pumpkin carving. Supermarkets have shelves to fill, and its just so boring when you see wrapping paper, card and strange Christmas themed kitchenware. Give me a break. So try to remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}