{"id":819,"date":"2008-12-12T19:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=819"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:55:06","slug":"christmastime-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/12\/christmastime-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmastime &#8211; Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/perfection-1.jpg\" alt=\"game of perfection with motion blur\" class=\"wp-image-820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/perfection-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/perfection-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perfection, Christmas 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sleigh Ride<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s song pick is &#8220;Sleigh Ride.&#8221; There are plenty of good performances of it; writing this post I listened to the Boston Pops, Johnny Mathis, Kenny G, and Leroy Anderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perfection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years ago, at one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/12\/christmastime-hot-dog-pizza\/\">Christmas dinners<\/a> I described yesterday, the kids (which I was one of) started playing Perfection, a game where two people (or teams) race to match uniquely shaped plastic pieces onto a board. The first team that finishes pushes a button, which unlatches the opposing team&#8217;s board, allowing it to spring upward and send the pieces flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had fun, but my sisters and my cousins must have really liked it, because they&#8217;ve been playing each other every year, on the same teams, for what I believe has been over ten years now. Their games get pretty intense, and there is plenty of trash talk. It&#8217;s a nice tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, I&#8217;m off to a Christmas party. I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll play Perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>12th in a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/category\/christmas\/\"><em>series of Christmasy things<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfection, Christmas 2004. Sleigh Ride Today&#8217;s song pick is &#8220;Sleigh Ride.&#8221; There are plenty of good performances of it; writing this post I listened to the Boston Pops, Johnny Mathis, Kenny G, and Leroy Anderson. Perfection Many years ago, at one of the Christmas dinners I described yesterday, the kids (which I was one of) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/12\/christmastime-perfection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmastime &#8211; Perfection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}