{"id":2187,"date":"2008-12-05T01:39:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2008-12-05T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T07:44:18","slug":"two-dollar-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/holidays\/two-dollar-wreath\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-dollar wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3083516589\/\" title=\"wreath by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3003\/3083516589_ee0ff84742.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"wreath\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My mother keeps approximately eighteen unused Christmas wreaths in the attic at all times, and over the weekend when I was up there getting decorations down for her, she told me to take one \u2014 no, two! no, three! no, twelve! \u2014 home with me. So I did. Take one, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I picked a plain one that just came with a big red bow, which I unceremoniously ripped off because it didn&#8217;t quite match the sparkly stuff I found in the Target dollar bin (container of sparkly pine cones and container of tiny sparkly balls, a dollar each). A little bit of hot glue later (okay, a lot) and there you go, a ghetto-fabulous wreath, which you might or might not secure to your front door with cat-chewed fishing line and packing tape. <\/p>\n<p>A word of caution, thought: It is in your best interests to keep your long-ass hippie hair <i>away<\/i> from the hot glue gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother keeps approximately eighteen unused Christmas wreaths in the attic at all times, and over the weekend when I was up there getting decorations down for her, she told me to take one \u2014 no, two! no, three! no, twelve! \u2014 home with me. So I did. Take one, that is. I picked a plain one that just came with a big red bow, which I unceremoniously ripped off because it didn&#8217;t quite match&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[479],"tags":[653,660,658,649,659],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-christmas","tag-craft","tag-decoration","tag-holiday","tag-wreath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-zh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}