{"id":487,"date":"2008-12-06T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildingcathedrals.com\/2008\/12\/06\/non-present-presents\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T12:07:00","slug":"non-present-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/buildingcathedrals\/2008\/12\/non-present-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Present Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Ok, so we are three weeks out from Christmas and the temptation to buy, buy, buy is setting in. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, I am pretty good at ignoring societal pressures. However, I do fall victim to the mentality of, \u201cwell, sister-in-law is going to buy something for me, so I better check her off my list.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Please help me to thwart this trend of buying thoughtless trinkets and spending hours in line at the post office to mail them without being the family Grinch. What non-present present traditions do you have in your families that work? Ways you spread the holiday cheer without spending the needless cash? Preemptive thank you. Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas to all.<\/p>\n<p>How you hanging, MA?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so we are three weeks out from Christmas and the temptation to buy, buy, buy is setting in. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, I am pretty good at ignoring societal pressures. 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