{"id":1235,"date":"2007-12-25T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T08:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2007-12-25T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T08:54:58","slug":"white_christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/25\/white_christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"White Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may suspect from what I&#8217;ve written lately, I&#8217;ve been having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Well, I always have a hard time with that, but this year has been unusually grinchy for various reasons. That&#8217;s probably why I&#8217;ve been writing about it so much, because I was trying to convince myself to be more enthusiastic or something. It hasn&#8217;t worked out so well, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>However, my mood improved quite a bit this morning when I opened the front door and beheld this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/Xmas-day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christmas morning 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/Xmas-day-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click to enlarge and experience the full effect of the wintry goodness. I can&#8217;t remember the last time we had a genuinely white Christmas around here &#8212; seems like it always warms up two days beforehand and we end up with a muddy Christmas instead &#8212; and it&#8217;s also delightful not to see or hear any traffic out there on what is usually a very busy road.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Santa brought everyone something good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may suspect from what I&#8217;ve written lately, I&#8217;ve been having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Well, I always have a hard time with that, but this year has been unusually grinchy for various reasons. That&#8217;s probably why I&#8217;ve been writing about it so much, because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}