{"id":1072,"date":"2009-11-29T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:43:20","slug":"transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Light in darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Advent_calendar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nToday is Advent Sunday, which marks the beginning of Advent. Advent has mostly lost its original religious meaning here in Sweden and is, effectively, &ldquo;the time of waiting for Christmas&rdquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThus, Advent Sunday and the first weekend of Advent is the time for hanging up Christmas decorations and lights. At home, that is: shops and businesses have had theirs up for weeks already (since they cleared out all the Halloween stuff). After weeks of creeping, gradually increasing darkness, there is just a little bit more light out there. I love the way our neighbourhood looks, with sparkles of light in just about every window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe have our two advent stars that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/day_off\/\">bought last year<\/a>, but not much more in the way of decorations. I don&rsquo;t like visual noise, our living room feels cluttered already, and traditions are not very important to me. But I think Ingrid would enjoy having a bit more Christmas feeling at home. She&rsquo;s been pointing out every single Christmas tree, Santa and fake snowman we&rsquo;ve passed. I guess I will try to figure out some way to introduce some more Christmas cheer here. If not in time for this Christmas, then definitely for next time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI did, at least, manage an Advent calendar for Ingrid. Nothing fancy, since I didn&rsquo;t start planning in time &ndash; just a 24-piece puzzle in 24 red envelopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Advent Sunday, which marks the beginning of Advent. Advent has mostly lost its original religious meaning here in Sweden and is, effectively, &ldquo;the time of waiting for Christmas&rdquo;. Thus, Advent Sunday and the first weekend of Advent is the time for hanging up Christmas decorations and lights. At home, that is: shops and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,7],"tags":[87,114,115,66,85],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-everything_else","tag-christmas","tag-dark","tag-light","tag-photo","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16406,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}