{"id":29829,"date":"2020-12-25T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=29829"},"modified":"2021-12-28T23:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:34:55","slug":"merry-christmas-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=29829","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2189\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080226_RMNP_5D_6402_SilentNight_w71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2189\" title=\"Moraine Park in Late Evening Light\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080226_RMNP_5D_6402_SilentNight_w71.jpg\" alt=\"Silent Night, Moraine Park\" width=\"700\" height=\"493\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silent Night, Moraine Park, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Snow glistens in the last light of dusk.<br \/>\nDistant clouds glow with the fading light from the sun, long since set.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A chill fills the calm night air.<br \/>\nStars twinkle in the deepening winter sky.<\/p>\n<p>The crunch, crunch, crunch of footsteps on the gravel path.<br \/>\nFootsteps that lead ever closer to home.<br \/>\nLights come on in the distance. Warm and inviting.<\/p>\n<p>Home. Family. Friends. Dinner and the opening of gifts.<\/p>\n<p>The voices of carolers drift across the valley:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Silent night, holy night,<br \/>\nAll is calm, all is bright. . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow glistens in the last light of dusk. Distant clouds glow with the fading light from the sun, long since set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29830,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829\/revisions\/29830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}