{"id":528,"date":"2009-12-11T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:59:00","slug":"and-so-we-wait-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"And So We Wait For Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\">It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.  ~W.T. Ellis<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SyJsvoGYerI\/AAAAAAAAFpw\/tl2pPJjV20Y\/s1600-h\/DSC05006.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SyJsvoGYerI\/AAAAAAAAFpw\/tl2pPJjV20Y\/s320\/DSC05006.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414009267526597298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\">Let Christmas not become a thing<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> Merely of merchant&#8217;s trafficking,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> And surface pleasure, but beneath<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> The childish glamour, let us find<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> Nourishment for soul and mind.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> Let us follow kinder ways<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> Through our teeming human maze,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> And help the age of peace to come<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> From a Dreamer&#8217;s martyrdom.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\"> ~Madeline Morse<\/span><\/div>\n<p>P.S. The kids are having a hard time understanding how long this waiting will last and I didn&#8217;t feel inspired by the chocolate boxed advent calendars I saw when shopping&#8230; looking for something we can use every year so it has some tradition to it&#8230; any ideas where we could find something?<\/p>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant&#8217;s trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}