{"id":1292,"date":"2006-08-04T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T17:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2006-08-04T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T17:28:47","slug":"up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/08\/04\/up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close and Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael,<\/p>\n

Katie had her 22nd birthday yesterday, and while we (Mrs Rakkity, Patrick & fiancee Georgia) were celebrating at Outback restaurant I asked KT if she had seen the USA Today article about women’s preferences for diamonds or tech toys. According to the article, today’s women would prefer a digital toy to a diamond necklace. (When I saw that article, I thought about Mrs Rakkity and guessed that she’d prefer a low-tech washing machine or a lawnmower to an iPod or diamonds.) Anyway, I asked the birthday girl what sort of woman she was–a techie or a diamond lover. She responded emphatically, “High tech!”<\/p>\n

So what had we planned to give her, and what did we give her? A digital camera, of course. She was estatic. But having thought ahead back in Beijing way before the tech\/diamond article appeared, I got KT a jade bracelet. And she liked that too, but not quite as much asthe camera.<\/p>\n

–rakkity<\/p>\n

(picture coming tonight)<\/p>\n

rakkity,<\/p>\n

Give a girl a camera and you get a pretty sunset, give her a video cam and you might get this <\/a>. <\/p>\n

Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael, Katie had her 22nd birthday yesterday, and while we (Mrs Rakkity, Patrick & fiancee Georgia) were celebrating at Outback restaurant I asked KT if she had seen the USA Today article about women’s preferences for diamonds or tech toys. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}