{"id":268,"date":"2010-12-09T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-12-09T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:20:00","slug":"it-was-hard-to-say-in-christmases-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"It Was Hard To Say In Christmases Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TQBnO3OXGjI\/AAAAAAAAKAo\/6gFxZL7wU2M\/s1600\/DSC07634crop.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548548245960464946\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TQBnO3OXGjI\/AAAAAAAAKAo\/6gFxZL7wU2M\/s320\/DSC07634crop.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> (He couldn&#8217;t seem to stand me taking pictures alone. Riddick kept rushing in as the camera clicked. This meant he kept showing up as a blur&#8230; so finally I took a moment and picked him up and made him hold still nicely for one. I like that he likes me:) Since we are both looking pretty good I thought I should share!) <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Just a thought, sometimes in Christmases past things would get so busy I ended up barely using the old greeting &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; all season. That meant it wasn&#8217;t comfortable for me when others would wish me merry Christmas&#8230; I remember having trouble giving a hearty response in kind. A perfect example of how my focus was WAY OFF! Not that stress itself isn&#8217;t a good enough clue, but moms are good at explaining stress away as a necessity&#8230; so now that we are so much better at not letting Christmas get that stressful over here I start pretty early with sharing this greeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is why you will find it so much on my blog this month; I am practicing!<\/p>\n<p>And with that thought, well more then a thought&#8230; story, I wish you a<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">MERRY CHRISTMAS!<\/span> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><\/span>TTFN <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(He couldn&#8217;t seem to stand me taking pictures alone. Riddick kept rushing in as the camera clicked. This meant he kept showing up as a blur&#8230; so finally I took a moment and picked him up and made him hold still nicely for one. I like that he likes me:) Since we are both looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17,18,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}