{"id":8867,"date":"2013-12-16T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:43:02","slug":"flashback-fave-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/flashback-fave-a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Fave: A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>nother seasonal favourite post to re-share this holiday season! I think this is also Lucas’s favourite blog post that I have ever written. He often asks me to show him “the story with Willie and the red ball.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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 …<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

… when all of a sudden — dun dun DUN — I saw him: the Creeping Mischief Monster!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

And even more terrifyingly, at that exact moment, he noticed it<\/em>. The shiny red ball!!<\/p>\n

\"360:365<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, you knew this was inevitable.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

This is why we can’t have nice things.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Since I published this post in 2011, the photo of mischevious Willie and that tempting red ornament has become one of my best-selling photos on Getty Images. It has appeared on the web<\/p>\n

\"Found<\/a><\/p>\n

…on the pages of Good Housekeeping magazine…<\/p>\n

\"Found<\/a><\/p>\n

…and most recently just last month on the pages of USA Today.<\/p>\n

\"Found<\/a><\/p>\n

Silly old cat!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another seasonal favourite post to re-share this holiday season! I think this is also Lucas’s favourite blog post that I have ever written. He often asks me to show him “the story with Willie and the red ball.” There I was, minding my own business, playing with the Charlie Brown Christmas tree and taking pictures … Continue reading “Flashback Fave: A Christmas Story”<\/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":[103,93,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback-faves","category-happy-holidays","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}