{"id":332,"date":"2008-12-25T05:27:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckinabox.com\/blog\/files\/christmas_gifts.php#unique-entry-id-38"},"modified":"2008-12-25T05:27:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T05:27:34","slug":"christmas-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">What does an eccentric artist get\/make for his family as a Christmas gift?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13px; font-weight:bold; \">Sardines!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Each card is a hand drawn pencil sketch of 3 sardines. Each card is slightly different. The cover of each card reads &ldquo;Merry Christmas&rdquo;. Inside each card reads &ldquo;Live Long and Prosper&rdquo;. On the opposite inner page reads &ldquo;Christmas 2008, hand drawn by John Beck, x of 9&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Each tin of sardines is lovingly wrapped in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makersmark.com\/\" rel=\"external\">Maker&rsquo;s Mark<\/a> wrapping paper.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imageStyle\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/sardines2.jpg?resize=362%2C241\" width=\"362\" height=\"241\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imageStyle\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/sardines1.jpg?resize=246%2C362\" width=\"246\" height=\"362\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does an eccentric artist get\/make for his family as a Christmas gift? Sardines! Each card is a hand drawn pencil sketch of 3 sardines. Each card is slightly different. The cover of each card reads &ldquo;Merry Christmas&rdquo;. Inside each card reads &ldquo;Live Long and Prosper&rdquo;. On the opposite inner page reads &ldquo;Christmas 2008, hand &#8230; <a title=\"Christmas Gifts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=332\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christmas Gifts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john_beck","wp-image-borders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XpZy-5m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":197,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=197","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":0},"title":"2009 Christmas card","author":"John Beck","date":"December 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's my design for my 2009 Christmas card that I will be giving out. What do you think?Last year were hand drawn cards of sardines which came with a can of sardines. This year it's a collage. I originally wanted to incorporate random images from Wikipedia entries. That was taking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"Christmas Card 2009","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/xmascard09.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":196,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=196","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":1},"title":"Merry Christmas","author":"John Beck","date":"December 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Merry Christmas, my buddy James out in San Francisco sent me a Christmas card. Here's what he wrote inside:Thanks buddy! Merry Christmas to you too! I hope you come back to NJ soon!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/jamescard.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=55","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":2},"title":"2012 Jo Jo&#x27;s Christmas Card","author":"John Beck","date":"December 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I really like the collage I made for this year\u2019s card for our favorite waitress at Jo Jo\u2019s Tavern.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"2012","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/2012.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":190,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=190","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":3},"title":"RHO &#8211; RAE","author":"John Beck","date":"January 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A lovely surprise was waiting in the mailbox for me today. My friend Rachel sent me a postcard. It's no ordinary postcard. It's a limited edition, #1 of 6, linocut that she and her companion made together. I feel so fortunate to not only receive one but receive the first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/linocutrachel.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":94,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=94","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":4},"title":"Christmas Cards","author":"John Beck","date":"December 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a picture of me with some of the Christmas cards that I received from friends and family.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"cards2011","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/cards2011.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":52,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=52","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":5},"title":"2012 Christmas loot&#x21;","author":"John Beck","date":"December 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s some of the loot that Santa brought me for Christmas.Saucony ProGrid Ride 5 running shoes, FujiFilm Instax 210 instant camera, Old Spice classic after shave and a jump rope!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;John Beck&quot;","block_context":{"text":"John Beck","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"2012LOOT","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beckinabox.com\/files\/img_4374.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}