{"id":1030,"date":"2008-11-21T02:25:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-09-21T18:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:35:14","slug":"mice-and-cups-and-rubber-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Mice and Cups and Rubber Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm planning to visit my parents in Tucson, for Thanksgiving, and that argues against getting a mouse until I have returned, since it would be best if the mouse and I had a well-established relationship before I take it on trips of any length.  None-the-less, I went to La Jolla yester-day evening, to take a look at a mouse.  He wasn't, in any case, what I really want, in part because he looks fully adult, and I'd like to get a juvenile.<\/p> <p>The trip wasn't a loss, as I stopped at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmarket.com\/home.jsp\">World Market<\/a> site in La Jolla Village Square, and found red <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stacking_cof.jpg\">stacking coffee cups<\/a> and <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stacking_mug.jpg\">stacking large mugs<\/a> that match the <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stacking_esp.jpg\">stacking espresso cups<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a>. (Some of the sets of large mugs were still in their shipping boxes, and a young woman at the store was kind enough to find for me a set of the coffee cups likewise still packed.)<\/p> <p>I also found various seasonal rubber ducks, the best of which had a kippah and Chanukah vestments.  I got one for a neighbor who has an extensive collection of rubber ducks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I'm planning to visit my parents in Tucson, for Thanksgiving, and that argues against getting a mouse until I have returned, since it would be best if the mouse and I had a well-established relationship before I take it on trips of any length. None-the-less, I went to La Jolla yester-day evening, to take a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[179,184,448,178,447],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-companion-animals","tag-mice","tag-nest-feathering","tag-pets","tag-tableware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}