{"id":3023,"date":"2009-12-28T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2009-12-28T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:16:30","slug":"day-360-noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-family\/day-360-noel\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 361: Noel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4221820904\/\" title=\"Day 361: Noel by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4221820904_772cbcc5a7_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Day 361: Noel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The family had its Christmas Day giftapalooza Sunday when I could be there. I got digital photo frames for my parents, grandmother, and sister, and everyone seemed to like them (especially when I loaded up jump drives with hundreds of photos so they didn&#8217;t have to do the heavy lifting, although <i>some people<\/i> didn&#8217;t hesitate to critique the photos I had chosen for display; note to self \u2014 Grandmaw does not appreciate my &#8220;art&#8221; shots). My haul was more generous than I deserve, as always. Among the gifts was a huge set of fancy knives from my parents, so I pity the next hunk of meat or vegetable stalk I encounter, because I am going to cut the everloving hell out of it. <\/p>\n<p>Mom made an outstanding cheesecake for my birthday cake and we ended the evening with a couple of games of Scrabble and a couple of glasses of pink bubbly. Pretty fine.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it, then. Another holiday season in the books. They are coming faster and furiouser these days and I can&#8217;t even pretend to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try though. The goal is to try.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family had its Christmas Day giftapalooza Sunday when I could be there. I got digital photo frames for my parents, grandmother, and sister, and everyone seemed to like them (especially when I loaded up jump drives with hundreds of photos so they didn&#8217;t have to do the heavy lifting, although some people didn&#8217;t hesitate to critique the photos I had chosen for display; note to self \u2014 Grandmaw does not appreciate my &#8220;art&#8221; shots).&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":[479,683,85],"tags":[653,500,649,2149],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-project-365-2009","category-the-family","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-holiday","tag-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}