{"id":1787,"date":"2010-12-25T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:45:22","slug":"its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/12\/its-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christmas<\/a>Unlike most people, and myself most years, my grand Christmas gift exchange isn’t taking place this morning, but rather this evening and tomorrow. I therefore still can’t post any pictures of the gifts I’ve made. Just know that I didn’t finish making the last one till about 11:00AM today, December 25.<\/p>\n

How did that happen? Well, yesterday afternoon I saw that I only had about 2 more hours work on what was to be the last gift I’d make, and so I said, “hey, you can make something else little!” God forbid I should simply sit and sip the last of my world-famous homemade eggnog and watch Christmas movies on TV. Heck, no! In Obsessive World, if there are hours left in the day, you’re not out of time yet!<\/p>\n

So I made something little. It was pretty quick to make (probably 90 minutes) & looked ok, but didn’t knock my socks off. So I made a different something little. This one took probably twice as long, and was cute enough, but didn’t fit the bill for other reasons. By now it was after 8PM. Yikes! I still needed a few hours to finish that other thing! So back to that. I didn’t finish it until 11PM, and then I was off to bed. <\/p>\n

Got up this morning and had a nice, long, lovely Christmas phone call with Margaret<\/a>. Then I said to myself, “You don’t need to leave the house till 1 or 1:30, you have time to make another one of those little things.” So I did. When I finished I figured I had just enough time to shower, finish wrapping things (I was mostly done – primarily just those gifts I’d just finished), pack the car, and head out. I was right. Except for one thing…<\/p>\n

I had just enough time left to write a blog post. I’ve been remarkably behind in posting this month, so figured I could get one more in before I headed to Amanda’s<\/a>. I’ll have the Christmas phone call with Michael while I’m driving.<\/p>\n

So since I can’t post any pix of what I’ve made, I included a photo of what my house looked like every Christmas while I was growing up. (This isn’t actually my house; I found the shot online.)<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas one and all! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike most people, and myself most years, my grand Christmas gift exchange isn’t taking place this morning, but rather this evening and tomorrow. I therefore still can’t post any pictures of the gifts I’ve made. Just know that I didn’t finish making the last one till about 11:00AM today, December 25.<\/p>\n

How did that happen? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-christmas","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}