{"id":1928,"date":"2009-01-24T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2009-01-24T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T00:12:00","slug":"merry-christmas-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, mon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Emily\/0109brokenangel.jpg\" target=\"blank\" title=\"ow.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Emily\/0109brokenangel-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Em&#8217;s still clinging to Christmas.  According to her, she&#8217;s going to find a fir cone, get a fir seed, and grow a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was putting away the manger scene and found the angel tucked away in the back.  That&#8217;s Scotch tape around her midsection there.  At least there wasn&#8217;t glue involved.<\/p>\n<p>Just before bed she asked me if I knew what Calypso was.  I talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calypso_(mythology)\" target=\"blank\">the myth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calypso_music\" target=\"blank\">the music<\/a> and she told me this:<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Em:<\/b>  &#8220;You can write a Calypso Christmas song.  You can call it whatever you want.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b>  &#8220;That might take a while; I&#8217;d need to think about that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>Em: <\/b> &#8220;You can teach it to me tomorrow.  Good night!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But no pressure.  You&#8217;re killing me, kid.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Em&#8217;s still clinging to Christmas. According to her, she&#8217;s going to find a fir cone, get a fir seed, and grow a Christmas tree. Today I was putting away the manger scene and found the angel tucked away in the back. That&#8217;s Scotch tape around her midsection there. At least there wasn&#8217;t glue involved. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}