{"id":9175,"date":"2009-12-09T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9175"},"modified":"2009-12-09T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:36:23","slug":"the-x-days-of-xmas-geek-ornaments-for-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/the-x-days-of-xmas-geek-ornaments-for-your-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The x Days of Xmas: Geek Ornaments for Your Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are only so many days left until that jolly fat man comes knocking on our doors, chimneys and mantles. A definite amount of days. An indefinite amount of items for which we care to share. The &#8220;x&#8221; is the variable. The unknown amount of time which seeks to be solved. The &#8220;Xmas&#8221; is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xmas_Story\" class=\"external external_icon\">Futurama reference<\/a> that good little boys and girls will get and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to it.<\/p>\n<p>Gizmodo asked the question, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5421796\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">What&#8217;s the nerdiest holiday ornament you&#8217;ve ever seen?<\/a>&#8216; Luckily we had the answer a full month before they even thought that question.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/samuraipaddler\/4073612997\/in\/photostream\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4073612997_969f644d82.jpg\" alt=\"Ornament - Watchmen\" title=\"Ornament - Watchmen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4073612997_969f644d82.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4073612997_969f644d82-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/samuraipaddler\/4073612997\/in\/photostream\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">mind of the one we call MedicMike<\/a> a small testament of care to the ultimate Comedian.<\/p>\n<p>Any ornaments you wish to share would be appreciated here(in the comments on this site) or <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5421796\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only so many days left until that jolly fat man comes knocking on our doors, chimneys and mantles. A definite amount of days. An indefinite amount of items for which we care to share. The &#8220;x&#8221; is the variable. The unknown amount of time which seeks to be solved. The &#8220;Xmas&#8221; is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,48],"tags":[520,4938,1761,692,1764,1253,1763,4952,138,522,1762],"class_list":["post-9175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-holiday","tag-alan-moore","tag-artist","tag-christmas-2009","tag-geektastic","tag-gizmodo","tag-medicmike","tag-ornaments","tag-people-i-know","tag-people-i-share-a-state-with","tag-the-watchmen","tag-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}