{"id":864,"date":"2004-12-04T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/04\/merry-christmas-nina\/"},"modified":"2004-12-04T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2004-12-04T22:58:40","slug":"merry-christmas-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/04\/merry-christmas-nina","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Nina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know those white elephant gift exchanges\u2013the ones where you bring a gag gift and it goes into a pool and everyone picks out a lame gift at random and then opens it in front of everyone?<\/p>\n<p>Well, they just did that at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xa-unc.com\/\">UNC Chi Alpha<\/a>, and they caught the funniest gag gift I\u2019ve ever seen on tape.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~warbry\/Pictures\/Movies\/Merry%20Christmas%20Nina.wmv\">See what Nina got for Christmas!<\/a> (a 40 second movie in Windows Media Player format)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not obvious on the video, but the gift is indeed <strong>a live rat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My commendations to Brad Novosad for his most excellent discipleship of these students in the ways of merriment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know those white elephant gift exchanges\u2013the ones where you bring a gag gift and it goes into a pool and everyone picks out a lame gift at random and then opens it in front of everyone? Well, they just did that at UNC Chi Alpha, and they caught the funniest gag gift I\u2019ve ever \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/04\/merry-christmas-nina\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMerry Christmas, Nina!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chi-alpha-worldwide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}