{"id":2200,"date":"2018-12-21T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:41:19","slug":"this-is-why-december-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"This is why December is great"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve said this many times before but it’s worth repeating each December. The weeks leading up to Christmas are my favorite days of the year, not just for the obvious reasons. The #1 reason I enjoy this time of year is that for a few weeks everyone acts the way I do. Party on a Tuesday night? No problem. Shopping at midnight? Every store is still open. Pump Christmas music 24 hours a day? Yup. Be in a total rush getting from one fun thing to the next? Yes, yes, and yes.<\/p>\n

Make a lot of money, spend a lot of money, and have fun.<\/p>\n

This is what Christmas<\/del> life is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve said this many times before but it’s worth repeating each December. The weeks leading up to Christmas are my favorite days of the year, not just for the obvious reasons. The #1 reason I enjoy this time of year … Continue reading →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}