{"id":30283,"date":"2006-07-31T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/07\/31\/christmas-gift-idea-for-your-favorite-glasses-wearing-geek\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T10:00:19","slug":"christmas-gift-idea-for-your-favorite-glasses-wearing-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060731-19\/?p=30283","title":{"rendered":"Christmas gift idea for your favorite glasses-wearing geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m talking about Christmas gifts (or &#8220;winter solstice gifts&#8221; if you prefer) in July. I&#8217;m one of those people for whom buying Christmas gifts is a brain-wracking ordeal, and I&#8217;m always on the lookout all year round for the &#8220;perfect gift&#8221;.\n Last Christmas, a friend of mine gave me a micro-fiber lens-cleaning cloth that comes in a pouch you can attach to a keychain. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeglass.com\/products-accessories-cloths.html\"> Example&nbsp;1<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.17photo.com\/product.asp?id=HMFCS\"> Example&nbsp;2<\/a>. (I have no affiliation with those two sites; I just hunted around looking for a picture.) Best gift ever. I use it several times a day.<\/p>\n<p> My keychain has only four things on it: The aforementioned cleaning cloth, a USB thumb drive, my car key, and my house key. And I could do without the thumb drive and car key most days. But don&#8217;t take away my cleaning cloth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m talking about Christmas gifts (or &#8220;winter solstice gifts&#8221; if you prefer) in July. I&#8217;m one of those people for whom buying Christmas gifts is a brain-wracking ordeal, and I&#8217;m always on the lookout all year round for the &#8220;perfect gift&#8221;. Last Christmas, a friend of mine gave me a micro-fiber lens-cleaning cloth that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m talking about Christmas gifts (or &#8220;winter solstice gifts&#8221; if you prefer) in July. I&#8217;m one of those people for whom buying Christmas gifts is a brain-wracking ordeal, and I&#8217;m always on the lookout all year round for the &#8220;perfect gift&#8221;. Last Christmas, a friend of mine gave me a micro-fiber lens-cleaning cloth that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}