{"id":601,"date":"2006-05-10T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2006-05-10T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T14:58:11","slug":"im-getting-simple-in-my-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m getting simple in my old age."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">My birthday is in like a month. I have never had this much difficulty deciding what kind of birthday present I want. Normally by now I know exactly what I want and I think I will be satisfied with that decision. However, this year I can not make that decision. I have bounced from a light table for my art work to a new tattoo all the way to a laptop and now down to a new cell phone. While we are on the subject of new cell phones, I used to like cell phones with all the gadgets and gizmos. Today I find myself looking at the simple phones, something to just fulfill my needs. Color display, text messaging and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about it. I think I have finally decided that what I truly want is the simple things in life, my wife, my animals and a roof over my head. Anything else is just a bonus! My current decision for my birthday and the one that I have decided that I want the most is a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nokiausa.com\/phones\/6101\" title=\"Nokia 6101\" >Nokia 6101<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and maybe some gold for my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/\" title=\"World of Warcraft\" >World of Warcraft<\/a> character (the online game that I am seriously addicted to).\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Ching told me last night that even she is not this difficult to shop for. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just my old age.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is in like a month. I have never had this much difficulty deciding what kind of birthday present I want. Normally by now I know exactly what I want and I think I will be satisfied with that decision. However, this year I can not make that decision. I have bounced from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}