{"id":441,"date":"2007-11-23T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/my-christmas-wishlist\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T01:10:44","slug":"my-holiday-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"My Holiday Wishlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.employeeevolution.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/27\/whats-on-your-holiday-wishlist\/\"><em>Cross posted at Employee Evolution<\/em><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tis the season where family and friends start asking the dreaded: what do you want for Christmas? My parents finally dropped it on me. I was actually talking to Rachel about this and she made a very excellent point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At this stage in my life I don&#8217;t need more &#8220;things.&#8221; I&#8217;m at a stage where I value experiences over things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant. As a student of the uber-successful <a href=\"http:\/\/fourhourworkweek.com\/blog\/\">Tim Ferriss<\/a> I agree entirely that I&#8217;d much rather a few bucks towards a ski-trip in Canada over a few bucks towards a new suit.<\/p>\n<p>In twenty years am I going to look back and remember how nice that jacket looked? No, I&#8217;ll stop and remember the great time I had in Bamf. Besides, our society defines gifts as expected and necessary. That defeats the purpose to me.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, we have too much stuff anyway. This year I&#8217;m going to ask someone to donate to a cause in my name or sponsor my upcoming adventure. That sounds like a pretty good wishlist to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted at Employee Evolution Tis the season where family and friends start asking the dreaded: what do you want for Christmas? My parents finally dropped it on me. I was actually talking to Rachel about this and she made a very excellent point: At this stage in my life I don&#8217;t need more &#8220;things.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32,49,585,577,106],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-personal","tag-travel","tag-wishlist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}