{"id":44315,"date":"2011-05-19T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-while-back-i-stumbled-on-this-limited-edition\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:55:48","slug":"a-while-back-i-stumbled-on-this-limited-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-while-back-i-stumbled-on-this-limited-edition\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-44315 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-while-back-i-stumbled-on-this-limited-edition\/attachment\/44316\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ll1ek9kOfu1qescblo1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A while back I stumbled on this limited edition $350 hand-crafted wooden car from Auditorium Toy Company. Could it possibly survive and be an heirloom my baby boy might pass down? Sure it could. But I\u2019d much rather drop $349 into his college fund and spend $1 on a Hot Wheels car. (And I also like the idea of not being served with divorce papers.) It\u2019s a beautiful toy car, no arguments there. But seriously \u2013 $350??? Sorry, but I\u2019ll just have to enjoy it from afar. Or will I? A certain phrase now comes to mind \u2013 Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery. Time to imitate! (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/05\/creating-an-heirloom-toy-for-your-kids\/\">Creating an Heirloom Toy for Your Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I stumbled on this limited edition $350 hand-crafted wooden car from Auditorium Toy Company. Could it possibly survive and be an heirloom my baby boy might pass down? Sure it could. But I\u2019d much rather drop $349 into his college fund and spend $1 on a Hot Wheels car. (And I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-44315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bwL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44317,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions\/44317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}