{"id":967,"date":"2011-05-07T20:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T00:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-05-07T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T00:07:31","slug":"happy-surprise-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/happy-surprise-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Surprise Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely surprise in the mail &#8211; a package from a bookseller. I didn&#8217;t order any books so I wasn&#8217;t sure what it was. Opened it up to find a signed, limited edition of <I>Woods and Waters Wild<\/i> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/wishlist\/397IKAEGOJ51E\/\">my amazon wishlist<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"woodswaterwild1a\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1a.jpg 375w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1a-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"woodswaterwild1b\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/woodswaterwild1b-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(And yes, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/charlesdelint\/faq.htm#cdlsig\">is his signature<\/a>! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phoenixfiredesigns.com\/stuff\/emoticons\/razz.gif\">)<\/p>\n<p>Charles de Lint is my all-time favorite author. This was a limited release through a small publisher (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.subterraneanpress.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=SP&#038;Product_Code=delint17\">Subterranean Press<\/a>) of some of his early works. It&#8217;s very neat in general and always cool to get something a little rare and special like this. Plus, it&#8217;s autographed! How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>I am assuming it&#8217;s a birthday present (getting close now &#8211; 8 days, 3 hours, 58 minutes until May 16th!) but unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know who to thank. There was no buyer name, only the email address of the bookseller. So <B>thank you!<\/b> to, well, someone! I&#8217;m so excited to go through it! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phoenixfiredesigns.com\/stuff\/emoticons\/love0048.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely surprise in the mail &#8211; a package from a bookseller. I didn&#8217;t order any books so I wasn&#8217;t sure what it was. Opened it up to find a signed, limited edition of Woods and Waters Wild from my amazon wishlist! (And yes, that is his signature! ) Charles de Lint is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-birthday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}