{"id":400,"date":"2009-12-01T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:21:16","slug":"preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-401\" title=\"rudolph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/rudolph.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"413\" \/><strong>Well, it&#8217;s December and it still doesn&#8217;t quite feel like the season yet (that could change today).<\/strong> My Midwestern upbringing has always assimilated snow with Christmas. I do remember a few &#8220;brown Christmases&#8221; but traditionally we&#8217;ve been pushing snow as early as Halloween. Admittedly the weather this year has been unusual all around and I&#8217;m grateful for the extended fall we&#8217;ve had. I&#8217;m certainly not wishing for the record snowfalls we had last year but I am dreaming of a white Christmas. The lights are strung, the tree is up, the halls are decked&#8230; and the shovels are ready!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s December and it still doesn&#8217;t quite feel like the season yet (that could change today). My Midwestern upbringing has always assimilated snow with Christmas. I do remember a few &#8220;brown Christmases&#8221; but traditionally we&#8217;ve been pushing snow as early as Halloween. Admittedly the weather this year has been unusual all around and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[101,16,18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-holidays","category-holidays","category-illustration","category-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-6s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}