{"id":253,"date":"2003-12-12T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/2003\/12\/12\/e-christmas-3\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T21:12:08","slug":"e-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/2003\/12\/12\/e-christmas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a149'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I have to be on-top of my&nbsp;Christmas present buying this year, since all present have to be mailed out many days in advance. This means no last-minute, Christmas eve shopping sprees. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ve been relying heavily on ol&#8217; Amazon.com this year, simply because they carry everything under the sun and if you spend enough dough, they&#8217;ll ship it for free. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Also, Amazon makes it very exciting for those of us who absolutely must receive their purchases a few days before December 25. When you buy a book from Amazon, they&#8217;ll give you a estimate on shipping (how long it takes to leave the warehouse) and delivery (how long it takes to&nbsp;get to&nbsp;your house). The exciting part? Once you place an order, these estimates will change, and change often. Like, several times a day. This morning my packages were scheduled to arrive on Dec 18, and this afternoon, well, they might make it here by Dec 21. By Monday, it&#8217;s not impossible that my books could be&nbsp;spending Christmas&nbsp;in a holding pen in Louisville, KY. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks Amazon, for keeping it interesting.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to be on-top of my&nbsp;Christmas present buying this year, since all present have to be mailed out many days in advance. This means no last-minute, Christmas eve shopping sprees. I&#8217;ve been relying heavily on ol&#8217; Amazon.com this year, simply because they carry everything under the sun and if you spend enough dough, they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casawalshstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/casawalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}