{"id":519,"date":"2014-12-24T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-12-24T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:22:45","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Christmas Eve, the only day we celebrate the fact that another holiday is almost here. (I consider Thanksgiving Eve a separate holiday from Thanksgiving and New Year&#8217;s Eve the real holiday as New Year&#8217;s Day is hardly anything at all.)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Eve means going to work but half-assing it all day. Christmas Eve is cookies and egg nog until you can&#8217;t see straight. It&#8217;s 24 hours of\u00a0<em>A Christmas Story<\/em>, Vince Guaraldi,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">and that yule log channel at 3 a.m. And maybe catching a glimpse of you-know-who and his band of reindeer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Christmas Eve is my favorite almost holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Christmas Eve, the only day we celebrate the fact that another holiday is almost here. (I consider Thanksgiving Eve a separate holiday from Thanksgiving and New Year&#8217;s Eve the real holiday as New Year&#8217;s Day is hardly anything at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}