{"id":400,"date":"2010-12-29T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2010-12-29T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:19:42","slug":"christmas-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time was busy as usual. Not even done with it yet if you want the truth. We still have the gift exchange with Hubbin&#8217;s family tomorrow. <br \/>\nI have to admit I have been quite the grinch this year. The gifts, the decorations, the whole shebang. I haven&#8217;t wanted much to do with it all. The one thing I was truly looking forward to was Christmas Caroling. We went and it was super-fun. Yet here I am asking why I still have no &#8220;christmas spirit&#8221; this year. I think I&#8217;m sick and tired of all the emphasise on everything but the reason for the season. <br \/>\nChrist is what Christmas is supposed to be about, but no one even mentions it anymore&#8230;..society is changing, and not in a good way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time was busy as usual. Not even done with it yet if you want the truth. We still have the gift exchange with Hubbin&#8217;s family tomorrow. I have to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-inspirations","category-uncategorized","has-meta has-sticky-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}