{"id":756,"date":"2006-12-21T18:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=756"},"modified":"2006-12-21T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:54:12","slug":"true-secret-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/12\/true-secret-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"True Secret Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s quite normal for some of my post to go to the office since someone is always there to sign for things, but imagine my surprise this week when I walked in to find a small little package for me. I hadn&#8217;t ordered anything myself recently and I was so puzzled as to what was in it that I had to open it when I got home. Imagine my surprise when I found a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciak.fi.it\">Ciak<\/a> journal. I&#8217;m almost at the end of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleskine.co.uk\/\">Moleskin<\/a> one so it works out really well for me. 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