{"id":1244,"date":"2009-12-08T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/treeless-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:05:07","slug":"treeless-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/treeless-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"treeless for christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week we&#8217;re going back to England.  It feels more hypothetical than <em>done-and-dusted<\/em> and that&#8217;s probably to do with the <em>busy<\/em> we&#8217;ve been keeping.  The Euro&#8217;s been filming for over a month, and I&#8217;ve been eating, sleeping and breathing 1 of 2 manuscripty  projects since mid-October.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I walked home &#8211; it was freezing and I stuck paper towels in my ears to keep the cold out.  It&#8217;s the only exercise I&#8217;ll get this week and it&#8217;s no where near enough.  I&#8217;m just shy of stir crazy and the knitting someone suggested isn&#8217;t doing the trick.  (I just want to poke things with the needles.) <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/charliebrowntree.jpg' alt='Charlie Brown Christmas Tree' \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night my neighbour was lighting his house and his tree and this made me want to light something too.  We&#8217;re not putting up a Christmas tree this year.  Not even a Christmas Twig.  This makes me feel a little like Charlie Brown but not too much because Holt House always has a wonderful tree and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ll be.    <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Christmas, barring books for my besties I&#8217;ve done zero shopping.  That leaves six days and counting to get things sorted Stateside. I am totally freaking out. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week we&#8217;re going back to England. It feels more hypothetical than done-and-dusted and that&#8217;s probably to do with the busy we&#8217;ve been keeping. The Euro&#8217;s been filming for over a month, and I&#8217;ve been eating, sleeping and breathing 1 of 2 manuscripty projects since mid-October. Yesterday I walked home &#8211; it was freezing and<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}