{"id":6562,"date":"2012-12-14T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2012-12-14T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:00:53","slug":"books-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=6562","title":{"rendered":"Books, Mostly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know that writers are all that harder (or easier) to shop for than real people. When you&#8217;re buying someone a gift, you either want to give them something they didn&#8217;t know they wanted (like the year we got my brother <em>Storm Front<\/em>) or you want to give them something they told you that they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>That said, a great go-to is a\u00a0book. I don&#8217;t know a writer who doesn&#8217;t get a little giddy about a new book, be it an e-book or a new hardback. It can be a bit of fiction or a reference book. You can never have too many books, and there are so many different kinds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, there are other options.\u00a0Some writers (yo) like office supplies. Pens, notebooks, office furniture, computer accessories, et cetera. I get giddy over a new USB drive. Software. Staples is, like, paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner is always a good one, especially for your single writer friends who don&#8217;t have space in their heads for both food and ideas. Just make sure that your friend isn&#8217;t going to be stressed out by the gift of being social.<\/p>\n<p>And really, you know your writer. You know if they want food or a new stapler or a DVD. Don&#8217;t let the writer in them daunt you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know that writers are all that harder (or easier) to shop for than real people. When you&#8217;re buying someone a gift, you either want to give them something they didn&#8217;t know they wanted (like the year we got my brother Storm Front) or you want to give them something they told you that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[460,1274],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers-life","tag-gifts","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}