{"id":641,"date":"2007-12-04T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=641"},"modified":"2007-12-04T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:49:21","slug":"gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/feature\/cheap_toy_round_up_2007\">gift guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chef Mario&#8217;s Dining Disasters: Stretchghetti &#038; Critters ($1)<\/p>\n<p>So how exactly does a tiny dish filled with rubbery fake spaghetti and little plastic rats and roaches constitute a &#8220;toy?&#8221; How do you play with it, exactly? Do you ditch the &#8220;critters&#8221; and fling the &#8220;stretchghetti&#8221; around? Re-enact scenes from Ratatouille? And what should we make of the package&#8217;s warning: &#8220;Do not leave stretchghetti on wood, fabric or other porous materials?&#8221; What alien civilization has foisted this abomination upon us, and how are they going to use it to control our young? One thing&#8217;s for sure: Chef Mario&#8217;s bound to lose a Michelin star over this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion&#8217;s gift guide: Chef Mario&#8217;s Dining Disasters: Stretchghetti &#038; Critters ($1) So how exactly does a tiny dish filled with rubbery fake spaghetti and little plastic rats and roaches constitute a &#8220;toy?&#8221; How do you play with it, exactly? Do you ditch the &#8220;critters&#8221; and fling the &#8220;stretchghetti&#8221; around? Re-enact scenes from Ratatouille? And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gifts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-gifts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}