{"id":28,"date":"2006-02-03T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:36:30","slug":"coffee-maker-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/2006\/02\/03\/coffee-maker-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Maker for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year I was looking a good Christmas present for Dad. I looked and looked but couldn&#8217;t find anything that I wanted to get him. Dad was always driving down to the Circle K (at the time) getting coffee, so I decided I would get him a little 4 cup coffee maker. I knew Mom wouldn&#8217;t approve, but he was going down to the store all the time to get a cup of coffee anyway, so did it really matter? The following summer I was standing in the driveway with Dad talking &#8220;things&#8221; when all of a sudden he tells me how much he appreciated and enjoyed the coffee maker!! I think that was one of the best gifts that I&#8217;ve every gotten for anybody. It still means a lot to me when I think about it today. While I didn&#8217;t know it at the time, I did discover that Dad would use the drive down to Circle K to have a smoke as well.\u00a0 He always smelled like cigarette smoke, but I always assumed that he was hanging out with co-workers that smoked, until one day I caught him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year I was looking a good Christmas present for Dad. I looked and looked but couldn&#8217;t find anything that I wanted to get him. Dad was always driving down to the Circle K (at the time) getting coffee, so I decided I would get him a little 4 cup coffee maker. I knew Mom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}