{"id":74,"date":"2015-12-23T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/?p=74"},"modified":"2016-01-02T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T18:31:09","slug":"the-christmas-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/the-christmas-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of a story here. My colleague had ordered for her boyfriend a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/R2-D2\" target=\"_blank\">R2D2<\/a> alarm clock which projects the time onto the ceiling. There are a number of variants of this thing on the market, and she ordered the one with good reviews about 4 weeks ahead of Christmas so that it would arrive in time.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday (22nd December) when it hadn&#8217;t arrived yet, she phoned up the supplier, who said that it must have got lost in the post (I&#8217;ve heard that excuse before, and I don&#8217;t believe it). They also said they were out of stock and wouldn&#8217;t be getting any in until January. My colleague was not happy.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely &#8220;not happy&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/brandculture.london\/blogs\/2011\/12\/05\/im-really-not-happy-about-this\/\" target=\"_blank\">proper British &#8220;not happy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I put this little vignette together to try and lighten her day today.<br \/>\nWhich it did. \u00a0This is the droid you are looking for.<br \/>\nHappy Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237331.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Delivery\" width=\"704\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237331.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237331-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237331-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237334.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Delivery\" width=\"704\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237334.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237334-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC237334-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of a story here. My colleague had ordered for her boyfriend a Star Wars R2D2 alarm clock which projects the time onto the ceiling. There are a number of variants of this thing on the market, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/the-christmas-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}