Last night Lydia asked me to help her wrap a present she’d gotten for her best friend. As I deftly cut and folded and tucked and taped, she marveled, “You’re, like, the queen of wrapping paper.”<\/p>\n
Though preening inwardly and preparing to have my ego stroked a bit, I kept my eyes demurely on the package as I asked, “Oh, really? Why’s that?”<\/p>\n
“Because you have a cupboard full of wrapping paper and you keep buying more!” she exclaimed.<\/p>\n
Huh. Not quite what I was expecting.<\/p>\n
Something in my expression must have given me away, because she did throw me a bone, at least. “And you’re pretty good at wrapping, too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night Lydia asked me to help her wrap a present she’d gotten for her best friend. As I deftly cut and folded and tucked and taped, she marveled, “You’re, like, the queen of wrapping paper.” Though preening inwardly and preparing to have my ego stroked a bit, I kept my eyes demurely on the… Read More Cue deflation.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}