{"id":4374,"date":"2011-05-18T07:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2012-05-28T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T17:22:19","slug":"magic-puzzle-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Magic Puzzle Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SneakersSears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4376\" title=\"SneakersSears\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SneakersSears.jpg\" alt=\"SneakersSears\" width=\"446\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SneakersSears.jpg 675w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SneakersSears-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dislike shopping, unless it is for, say, dinner party ingredients, or perhaps used books at the library\u2019s twice-yearly sale. Generally I try to purchase everything possible online. However, this is tough with shoes, so I agreed to take my daughter into a Sears store to acquire for her a pair of coveted Converse sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when this meant sitting down in a chair, being fitted by a chatty salesman, and having boxes fetched from a secret room. What a surprise! no chairs, no salesman, no secret room. (This is probably the result of so many folks shopping online. Uh-oh.) Instead, we had a lengthy and baffling search through fifty boxes in order to find two matching shoes in the correct size. Like a treasure hunt. Or a bizarre dream sequence. We were eventually successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CakeShells.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4375\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeShells\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CakeShells.png\" alt=\"CakeShells\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a> Father Madden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dislike shopping, unless it is for, say, dinner party ingredients, or perhaps used books at the library\u2019s twice-yearly sale. Generally I try to purchase everything possible online. However, this is tough with shoes, so I agreed to take my daughter into a Sears store to acquire for her a pair of coveted Converse sneakers.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4374\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,17,147,141,3],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-comix","tag-penink","tag-shoes","tag-shopping","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}