{"id":277,"date":"2008-12-08T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/12\/shameless-pitch-575.html"},"modified":"2008-12-08T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:08:00","slug":"shameless-pitch-575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/12\/shameless-pitch-575.html","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Pitch #575"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a link to Amazon on the left.  If you buy from Amazon by clicking through this blog, I guess I get Amazon.com credit or something.  I thought it was cute, so for the remainder of holiday shopping, feel free to check it out. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s allegedly showing you things that it thinks readers of my blog would like to buy.  I&#8217;m seeing a Geotrax set and an Electric Company DVD set among some books and an iPod&#8230;not bad&#8230;not bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a couple odds and ends for my holiday shopping this year, once those are wrapped up, I can be officially done!<\/p>\n<p>As for the cards, that&#8217;s another matter.  This class I&#8217;m in down on the FL Panhandle has been pretty intensive and I have my first exam tomorrow morning.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to work on the family newsletter during the week.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Yes, I&#8217;m blogging instead of studying, but don&#8217;t worry, Dave was a dear and just quizzed me via webcam from the objectives list I&#8217;d e-mailed him this afternoon.  I guess to help pay me back for the quizzing I helped him with during his PhD.  Thanks Dave, you helped quite a bit!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a link to Amazon on the left. If you buy from Amazon by clicking through this blog, I guess I get Amazon.com credit or something. I thought it was cute, so for the remainder of holiday shopping, feel free to check it out. It&#8217;s allegedly showing you things that it thinks readers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[75,54,79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":284,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/12\/holiday-aftermath-jam-on-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":0},"title":"Holiday Aftermath&#8230;Jam On It!","date":"26 December 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Holidays friends!We had a fun day yesterday...I have to admit I went a bit overboard with the holiday shopping for everyone. I guess I was counting on the extra money I'd earned from my 3 weeks in Florida. 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