{"id":175,"date":"2007-12-09T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T23:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mini-mysteries-five-minute-mysteries-whodunits.html"},"modified":"2007-12-09T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T23:23:48","slug":"mini-mysteries-five-minute-mysteries-whodunits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mini-mysteries-five-minute-mysteries-whodunits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Mysteries, Five Minute Mysteries, Whodunits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to come up with some little stocking stuffer types of things lately. Just little things that fill up a small amount of space&#8230; Things that take the place of yesteryear&#8217;s oranges and nuts&#8230;. Things that could actually be fun to get, rather than simply added into the nut bowl&nbsp;or the fruit drawer in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>I found these little gadget\/things called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002HRVJO\/ref=nosim\/httpwwwmarkes-20\">Tangles<\/a> last year that my (grown) son enjoys keeping by his computer. I think that they are ideal for people who fidget&#8230; people who just can&#8217;t seem to keep their hands from moving. (I probably could benefit from having some of these Tangles by my television chair&#8230; Instead, I cross stitch while watching television. I simply can&#8217;t seem to stay still!)<\/p>\n<p>Another idea came to me the other day while going through a box of things my (grown) daughter no longer needs&#8230; She had a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0806938072\/ref=nosim\/httpwwwmarkes-20\">Almost Perfect Crimes<\/a> by Hy Conrad. It is a book of &quot;Mini-Mysteries for You to Solve.&quot; I am not sure for what age the mysteries are intended, but I found myself trying to solve a few, and I now have the book by my bedside&#8230; so that I can&nbsp;solve more!&nbsp; (I just looked up Hy Conrad and found that he has several Mini-Mystery books, some which are definitely intended for children&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1402739664\/ref=nosim\/httpwwwmarkes-20\">Kid&#8217;s Whodunits: Catch the Clues!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I am still trying to come up with ideas for small gifts&#8230; but am sort of at a standstill. Do any of you have really good &quot;stocking stuffer&quot; types of ideas for any age group? If so, please send me a comment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to come up with some little stocking stuffer types of things lately. Just little things that fill up a small amount of space&#8230; Things that take the place of yesteryear&#8217;s oranges and nuts&#8230;. Things that could actually be fun to get, rather than simply added into the nut bowl&nbsp;or the fruit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2P","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}