{"id":25399,"date":"2011-04-26T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2011-04-26T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:19:04","slug":"better-than-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/better-than-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than a Baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/doorstep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/doorstep-450x306.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"doorstep\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/doorstep-450x306.png 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/doorstep-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/doorstep.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday I opened the front door of my house to discover that someone had left two mid-1990&#8217;s Hobby Japan magazines and a 1997 Otakara Figure Daizukan magazine on my doorstep. I&#8217;m certain that there are worse things I could find waiting at my door, and I&#8217;m certainly pleased to have anime related goods donated to my collection, but I&#8217;m also quite surprised and a bit confused by this unanticipated windfall. Presumably the magazines were left by someone I know. But in that case I&#8217;m curious why the contributor didn&#8217;t knock on my door to say hello, or leave a note. The alternative explanation is that someone I don&#8217;t know happens to know where I live and know that I collect anime merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday I opened the front door of my house to discover that someone had left two mid-1990&#8217;s Hobby Japan magazines and a 1997 Otakara Figure Daizukan magazine on my doorstep. I&#8217;m certain that there are worse things I could find waiting at my door, and I&#8217;m certainly pleased to have anime related goods donated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25425,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions\/25425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}