{"id":8531,"date":"2019-12-21T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8531"},"modified":"2019-12-21T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:09:57","slug":"a-useful-tip-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8531","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Tip for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is way out of the usual Irreal fare but it\u2019s, at the same time, astounding, obvious, and useful for the Christmas season:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me. After all these years&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dhNgjCVzeG\">pic.twitter.com\/dhNgjCVzeG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck B (@chUckbUte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chUckbUte\/status\/1206252680789708800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am among the world\u2019s worst gift wrappers and wish I\u2019d seen this before. At this point, though, all my gift giving is carefully arranged to avoid the need to wrap anything so I\u2019m passing this on for those who haven\u2019t yet reached my stage of infirmity.<\/p>\n<p>Via Karl Voit.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b> <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2019-12-21 Sat 13:51]<\/span><\/span>: Someone has seen fit to remove a 10 second video because of valuable intellectual property or something. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lifehacks\/comments\/a7yva9\/how_to_wrap_gifts_diagonally_with_less_wrapping\/\">Here\u2019s another video<\/a> illustrating the same thing but it lacks the pithiness of the original.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE2<\/b> <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2019-12-21 Sat 14:07]<\/span><\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lifehacks\/comments\/eaxpds\/this_would_have_saved_so_much_paper_over_time\/\">Here\u2019s the original video<\/a> from the tweet. I still find it amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is way out of the usual Irreal fare but it\u2019s, at the same time, astounding, obvious, and useful for the Christmas season: You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me. After all these years&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/dhNgjCVzeG \u2014 Chuck B (@chUckbUte) December 15, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8534,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}