{"id":14066,"date":"2020-12-24T22:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:35:44","slug":"daily_2171_-_christmas_eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/daily_2171_-_christmas_eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2171 &#8211; Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2171_gingerbread_cookies_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe had Christmas gifts, somewhat too much Christmas food, and a new batch of gingerbread cookies.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the run-up to Christmas more than Christmas Eve itself. Advent has all the good stuff &#8211; the lights, the decorations, the baking and then the eating of the baking &#8211; without the nearly hectic, keyed-up quality of Christmas itself. Christmas is tiring. Adrian is over-hyped about presents. My mum needs entertaining all day long, so I must keep up an even stream of activities and conversation, but only talk about topics that I don&#8217;t really care about because the odds are that I&#8217;ll get a snippy negative reply back.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2171_gingerbread_cookies_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n(Ingrid took this photo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Christmas gifts, somewhat too much Christmas food, and a new batch of gingerbread cookies. I enjoy the run-up to Christmas more than Christmas Eve itself. Advent has all the good stuff &#8211; the lights, the decorations, the baking and then the eating of the baking &#8211; without the nearly hectic, keyed-up quality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","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=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14068,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}