{"id":853,"date":"2005-02-08T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/853"},"modified":"2005-02-08T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T19:26:00","slug":"smitten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/853","title":{"rendered":"Smitten?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have never seen anything more suitable as a gift for and in my life as the Smitten<\/a>. And I doubt I shall do so in the future. With your permission, I’m going to buy one of these for you as the beginning of your (long, long overdue) wedding gift. Maybe if I buy you both one $10-20 gift every year for the next decade, we can call it even?
\nI am scum and a terrible shopper please forgive me ohhhhh<\/font><\/p>\n

The Toronto Star, Feb. 5, 2005<\/u>
\nA warm-hearted gift<\/b><\/p>\n

“What is THAT?” was the response from Star newsroom types when shown this fuzzy red object. “It’s a Smitten \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a conjoined mitten for two people in love to hold hands while they walk. See, it’s shaped like a heart.”<\/p>\n

“Looks more like an aorta, or maybe a bladder,” was the reply from non-romantic newshounds. Sigh.<\/p>\n

The Smitten, made of polar fleece, is intended for those who are not cynical and hardbitten, for “couples addicted to hugging, caressing and nuzzling. It’s for warm-hearted soulmates wishing to hold hands while crunching along together on a chilly afternoon,” says the Smitten company of Glen Ridge, N.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never seen anything more suitable as a gift for and in my life as the Smitten. And I doubt I shall do so in the future. With your permission, I’m going to buy one of these for you as the beginning of your (long, long overdue) wedding gift. Maybe if I buy you […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}