{"id":6450,"date":"2011-12-20T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T00:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2011-12-20T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T00:48:41","slug":"a-christmas-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/a-christmas-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>here I was, minding my own business, playing with the Charlie Brown Christmas tree and taking pictures of the reflections in the shiny red ball &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6546214335\/\" title=\"A Christmas Story (1 of 4) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7023\/6546214335_0fd08a6904.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"A Christmas Story (1 of 4)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; when all of a sudden &#8212; dun dun DUN &#8212; I saw him: the Creeping Mischief Monster!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6546215893\/\" title=\"A Christmas Story (2 of 4) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7160\/6546215893_66a1e3055b.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"A Christmas Story (2 of 4)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And even more terrifyingly, at that exact moment, he noticed <em>it<\/em>.  The shiny red ball!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6546217235\/\" title=\"360:365 A Christmas Story (3 of 4) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7146\/6546217235_cba26aa94e.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"360:365 A Christmas Story (3 of 4)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, you knew this was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6546218377\/\" title=\"A Christmas Story (4 of 4) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7027\/6546218377_3633b976b8.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"A Christmas Story (4 of 4)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is why we can&#8217;t have nice things.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, minding my own business, playing with the Charlie Brown Christmas tree and taking pictures of the reflections in the shiny red ball &#8230; &#8230; when all of a sudden &#8212; dun dun DUN &#8212; I saw him: the Creeping Mischief Monster! And even more terrifyingly, at that exact moment, he noticed it. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/a-christmas-story-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-holidays","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}