{"id":194,"date":"2019-12-19T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:54","slug":"2019-12-17-lego-minecraft-21515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Lego Minecraft &#8211; 2\/15\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">My girlfriend has a spending problem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I say that as has, because almost 6 years later it\u2019s still a problem. Although significantly less so as we\u2019ve both become far more responsible.  But considering the date was so closed to Valentine\u2019s day, she probably gave me this gift as a special treat. Although to be clear, she would spend her last dollar making someone else smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019ve checked with the authority, this purchase was likely over $200 and was a hassle. Multiple stores were visited to find all of them. But by the time she came to visit me in NC, she had this as a gift. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5c696ffcaf4683a255981197\/1576640316004-3SPEKQHH5XL5ME6OFC87\/IMG_2093.JPG?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5c696ffcaf4683a255981197\/1576640344412-4LRFXV645VISB79DM19D\/IMG_2094.JPG?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That would be every available Minecraft Lego set at the time. An AMAZING gift, so much so I had to bring out my camera to record this memory. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5c696ffcaf4683a255981197\/1576759070831-KO9F3OT6AFE75SQLUZHI\/IMG_2095.JPG?format=original\" alt=\" 1\/50 - F4.5 - ISO 1600 \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1\/50 &#8211; F4.5 &#8211; ISO 1600<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5c696ffcaf4683a255981197\/1576759338113-WFJ2D3U93VO3792OAIGD\/IMG_2098.JPG?format=original\" alt=\" 1\/50 - F5.6 - ISO 3200 \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1\/50 &#8211; F5.6 &#8211; ISO 3200<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5c696ffcaf4683a255981197\/1576759500584-OZ3XN90Q1FQROZY7NTQB\/IMG_2102.JPG?format=original\" alt=\" 1\/50 - F5 - ISO 3200 \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1\/50 &#8211; F5 &#8211; ISO 3200<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Always a good time building Lego. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend has a spending problem. I say that as has, because almost 6 years later it\u2019s still a problem. Although significantly less so as we\u2019ve both become far more responsible. But considering the date was so closed to Valentine\u2019s day, she probably gave me this gift as a special treat. Although to be clear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}