{"id":1949,"date":"2006-12-06T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T04:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2006-12-06T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:25:17","slug":"got-my-ugly-sweater-got-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Got my ugly sweater, got yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this Saturday is filled with birthday parties, holiday company parties from pwc, yahoo, intuit and sony&#8230;I am having my housewarming party co-hosted with my roommate and my downstairs neighbors (didn&#8217;t get the invite, let me know!)<\/p>\n<p>And it took a total of 30 minutes for me to go into a <a href=\"http:\/\/thrifttown.com\/\">thrift store<\/a> and find my ugly sweater.  You could find me pawing through racks of used clothing (something I never do).  Too nice?  Too plain?  Too coordinated?  It was nice having to look for that bright colors and tacky decorations.  Strangely enough, I saw one sweater on a rack in a corner and made a mental note to return if I couldn&#8217;t find anything better.  But when I did come back, a middle aged latino lady was holding it out to her son, &#8220;\u00c2\u00a1Qu\u00c3\u00a9 bonita!&#8221;  Then she put it into her growing bag of clothing.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to tell her that I wanted it for my ugly sweater holiday party.<\/p>\n<p>Although nothing can beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2005\/12\/if_you_want_to_.html\">clown sweater<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this Saturday is filled with birthday parties, holiday company parties from pwc, yahoo, intuit and sony&#8230;I am having my housewarming party co-hosted with my roommate and my downstairs neighbors (didn&#8217;t get the invite, let me know!) And it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}