{"id":30840,"date":"2015-12-25T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30840"},"modified":"2015-12-24T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T08:03:26","slug":"its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/its-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Christmas &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/its-christmas\/christmas-15-001a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30841\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-15-001a.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas '15 001a\" width=\"455\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-15-001a.jpg 455w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-15-001a-85x150.jpg 85w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas-15-001a-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time since 2009 &#8212; basically since the 2010-2011 earthquakes &#8212; that I&#8217;ve actually put up a Christmas tree and it feels pretty nice to have taken that step into something\u00a0 a little closer to emotional normalcy. (And don&#8217;t you love that slogan, Eat Sleep Read, on the bag? \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, wherever you are today, I would like to take this moment to wish you joy in whatever you are doing, whether it&#8217;s spending time with family and friends, curled up with a good book, or movie, or music, or working.<\/p>\n<p>My very first Christmas on the blog, in 2010,\u00a0 I posted Howard Thurman\u2019s words on Christmas &amp; I still can\u2019t think of many that speak to the day better, so I invite you to read them again <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take care, one and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time since 2009 &#8212; basically since the 2010-2011 earthquakes &#8212; that I&#8217;ve actually put up a Christmas tree and it feels pretty nice to have taken that step into something\u00a0 a little closer to emotional normalcy. (And don&#8217;t you love that slogan, Eat Sleep Read, on the bag? \ud83d\ude09 ) Anyway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30845,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions\/30845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}