{"id":900,"date":"2011-12-03T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbyvanburen.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-12-03T07:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:47:26","slug":"pre-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/12\/03\/pre-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this time of year when people are just beginning to think about the Holiday Season.  The last minute &#8220;I need to find the perfect gift&#8221; panic hasn&#8217;t kicked in yet, and people are leisurely putting up Christmas lights, door wreaths, and yard decorations.  The weather has been mild lately, allowing a comfortable experience to decorate outside.  <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, before we know it, it will be panic and crunch time.  People&#8217;s patience will be tested, their tempers short, and manners all but forgotten. Folks will be pushed and shoved waiting in lines, and probably more than a few toes stepped on.  All of this insanity for a few minutes of opening gifts on Christmas morning.  <\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s too bad that instead of one day,  we can&#8217;t have Holiday week, allowing more time to relax and enjoy our family and friends.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this time of year when people are just beginning to think about the Holiday Season. The last minute &#8220;I need to find the perfect gift&#8221; panic hasn&#8217;t kicked in yet, and people are leisurely putting up Christmas lights, door wreaths, and yard decorations. The weather has been mild lately, allowing a comfortable experience &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/12\/03\/pre-holiday-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pre-Holiday Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[146,200,319],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-general","tag-christmas","tag-decorations","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}