{"id":64,"date":"2007-09-03T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:34:42","slug":"like-xmas-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Like xmas morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiting for parts to arrive in the mail is like the excitement I felt waiting for xmas morning to roll around for so many years when I was a kid. There’s the feeling of anticipation – you don’t know exactly when your ill-gotten gains will find their way to you until you roll up panting to the letterbox and find that red and white parcel collection notice. And, like xmas morning, you don’t know exactly what surprises you might get. Granted, paying for something and waiting it to arrive from the US or elsewhere in the world isn’t quite the same as knowing you were going to get something<\/span>, but not knowing exactly what, but hey, when can we really say we experience the same childish excitement these days?<\/p>\n

Me, I’m waiting on the last piece of my build to arrive. There’ll be a very excited run to the post office when I get that golden ticket in the letterbox, and some feverish spanner work going down when my cranks arrive.<\/p>\n

For now, my blue, red and white steed will do the job while the canary yellow fixed-to-be sits waiting for the heart transplant it needs to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiting for parts to arrive in the mail is like the excitement I felt waiting for xmas morning to roll around for so many years when I was a kid. There’s the feeling of anticipation – you don’t know exactly when your ill-gotten gains will find their way to you until you roll up panting … Continue reading “Like xmas morning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}