{"id":14307,"date":"2014-12-21T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2014-12-20T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T22:50:22","slug":"do-you-have-present-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=14307","title":{"rendered":"Do you have ‘present paralysis?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to find the perfect gift is enough to make some of us lose our grip<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong>, Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"UTKellyColumn<\/a>As much as I love to shop, I find purchasing gifts at Christmastime absolutely exhausting. I have\u00a0a tendency to overthink things and this leads to \u201cpresent paralysis.\u201d I am the girl walking around\u00a0the store with a cart filled to the brim on lap one and then, as I make my way to the register, I\u00a0slowly remove 80% of my items. (I\u2019m sure the employees at Target have my picture up on the\u00a0bullseye in their staff break room.)<\/p>\n

I hold out hope that I will stumble across the PERFECT gift. The problem? I don\u2019t know what the\u00a0perfect gift IS. I suppose I\u2019m searching for the one special thing that will cause a gasp and a big,\u00a0bright smile. It doesn\u2019t have anything to do with price. It\u2019s more about remembering an obscure\u00a0comment, mentioned in passing, that someone would never expect for you to remember.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>I do seem to have more success shopping online. I still torture myself with indecisiveness\u00a0and second guessing but manage to click \u201csend to cart\u201d a little bit easier. I also appreciate not\u00a0having to drive anywhere and wait in long lines of frustrated people. Because, we are all in the\u00a0same boat, right? Everyone is scurrying about with a frazzled, exasperated look and panicked\u00a0sense of time.<\/p>\n

My younger son prefers to send me as close to the edge as possible by requesting the latest\u00a0Jordan basketball shoe as his \u201cone and only present that he really, really wants\u201d – this is so not\u00a0true, but we\u2019ll go with it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Michael Jordan, with his infinite wisdom and business savvy, has parents all over this\u00a0land sitting catatonic in front of a computer screen waiting for the (miniscule) chance to buy a\u00a0pair of his shoes. Two hundred dollars later, I don\u2019t know if I feel a sense of accomplishment or\u00a0defeat!<\/p>\n

But, I will achieve the smile I was hoping for…and, for that, I am happy.<\/p>\n

Good luck in these final four days of shopping. I\u2019d like to think that I have armed you with a\u00a0plethora of gift giving ideas over the course of this year.<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to find the perfect gift is enough to make some of us lose our grip By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times As much as I love to shop, I find purchasing gifts at Christmastime absolutely exhausting. I have\u00a0a tendency to overthink things and this leads to \u201cpresent paralysis.\u201d I am the girl walking around\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[319,267,5669,90],"class_list":["post-14307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-featured","tag-gifts","tag-holidays","tag-perfect","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14308,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions\/14308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}