{"id":46,"date":"2004-12-22T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/22\/an-hwb-of-ones-own\/"},"modified":"2004-12-22T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T15:40:21","slug":"an-hwb-of-ones-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/22\/an-hwb-of-ones-own\/","title":{"rendered":"An HWB of One&#8217;s Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is an official <strong>Public Thank You Note to Mels<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Mels, I and my toasty-warm feet love you.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you stumped about what to get that hard-to-shop-for friend or loved one, may I make a suggestion??? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadinghisword.org\/transparency\/archives\/2004\/11\/08\/hot_water_bottle_nights.php\">Hot Water Bottle<\/a> (aka, the &#8220;HWB&#8221;) makes a fine gift on any occasion, and though one may at first be at a slight loss at what to do with such a contraption (such a person must not be keeping up with Mels&#8217; blog), he&#8217;ll quickly come &#8217;round and see the value of a leak-proof rubber water-balloon. I received a darling, heart-shaped HWB in the mail this weekend, all the way from Germany, and introduced it to my bed sheets and my shivering feet just last night. It was <em>lovely<\/em>. Really and truly. Not one leak, not one moment of cold-fishy-ness (that thing stayed quite warm for hours!)&#8230; At 3:30am I woke from a lovely nightmare about haunted Polish crockery (don&#8217;t ask) and couldn&#8217;t sleep. I retreated to the couch with a Bible-sized copy of Anna Karenina, a colassal mug of tea, and a refreshed HWB. Worries melt away! Plug in the Christmas tree, light a few candles, read, sip, and enjoy toasty toes. It&#8217;s great. Really, you&#8217;ve got to try this. <\/p>\n<p>So, Mels, here&#8217;s to you and your warm generosity (in getting me a gift at all) and your foresight (in managing to get it to me on <em>TIME<\/em>&#8230;I was proud of myself for just getting those cards out, <em>finally<\/em>!) and all of your Melsy-ness in general. <em>You&#8217;re terrific!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is an official Public Thank You Note to Mels. Mels, I and my toasty-warm feet love you. For those of you stumped about what to get that hard-to-shop-for friend or loved one, may I make a suggestion??? A Hot Water Bottle (aka, the &#8220;HWB&#8221;) makes a fine gift on any occasion, and though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}