{"id":7554,"date":"2012-12-15T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2012-12-15T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T01:22:00","slug":"tis-the-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/12\/15\/tis-the-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long and irritating week, for reasons that I can&#8217;t discuss on the blog, and just when it finally looked like there might be some motion in a positive direction, I got a call from day care saying that SteelyKid had a fever and needed to be picked up immediately. But, on the bright side, it was a nice day today, and SteelyKid rallied long enough to help pick out and decorate a Christmas tree:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7555\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2012\/12\/sm_xmas_tree_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2012\/12\/sm_xmas_tree_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sm_xmas_tree_2012\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sm_xmas_tree_2012.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sm_xmas_tree_2012-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chateau Steelypips Christmas Tree 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s your happy thought for the weekend. The Pip is sort of puzzled as to why there&#8217;s suddenly an evergreen in the library, and he&#8217;s not too keen on the baby gate we put around it to keep him from trying to eat the ornaments. But it&#8217;s all Christmas-y in here, now, and I&#8217;ve switched iTunes to shuffling the &#8220;Christmas Songs that Don&#8217;t Suck&#8221; playlist, and SteelyKid&#8217;s asleep upstairs, so it could be a whole lot worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long and irritating week, for reasons that I can&#8217;t discuss on the blog, and just when it finally looked like there might be some motion in a positive direction, I got a call from day care saying that SteelyKid had a fever and needed to be picked up immediately. But, on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/12\/15\/tis-the-season-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Tis the Season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}