CAO Italia<\/a> cigar and a bottle of sparkling wine!<\/p>\nAll great gifts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santa (and family) got me some really great gifts for Christmas. Here’s the list: Gran Turismo 5 video game, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan book, Japanese Prints (Tashen edition) book, American Optics Original Pilot sunglasses, a light up Baltimore Ravens window decal, a nice minimal case for my iPhone 4s, a CAO Italia cigar … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","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-1v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":332,"url":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=332","url_meta":{"origin":93,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Gifts","author":"John Beck","date":"December 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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