{"id":315,"date":"2004-12-18T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=315"},"modified":"2004-12-18T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T23:10:46","slug":"xmas-shopping-in-los-gatos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/18\/xmas-shopping-in-los-gatos\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Shopping in Los Gatos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down into Los Gatos for a spot of Xmas shopping.  Lots of lines, as in the P. O., but it&rsquo;s somehow soothing to be part of the hive mind, to be sharing common activity.<\/p>\n<p>When I first moved to California and walked around Los Gatos in December, I was amazed.  I still am, kind of.  The first year I was here my father-in-law bought me a surfboard!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/losgatos.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The ultra-commercial artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskinkade.com\/magi\/servlet\/com.asucon.ebiz.search.web.tk.SearchServlet?keyword=los+gatos&#038;btn_action=keywordSearchFind\" target=\"_blank\"> Thomas Kinkade <\/a> lives near here and has painted a couple of Los Gatos scenes, one near this spot. Kind of a nice picture, actually. Available in spime form, in small and large sizes, signed and unsigned, with a variety of frames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/kinkadelgmain.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>One store had a kind of terrifying Santa Claus robot who sings and dances if you get close to him.  &#8220;Ho ho ho, spare change?&#8221;  Is this the 21st Century, or what?  Like Bender from <i>Futurama<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/fakesanta.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My head is warped by the shop windows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/funhousemir.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down into Los Gatos for a spot of Xmas shopping. Lots of lines, as in the P. O., but it&rsquo;s somehow soothing to be part of the hive mind, to be sharing common activity. When I first moved to California and walked around Los Gatos in December, I was amazed. I still am, kind of. [&hellip;]<\/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-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}