{"id":11369,"date":"2015-12-14T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2015-12-14T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:09:05","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11369","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We reached several important Christmas-prep milestones over the last few days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We bought a Christmas tree. A real tree! It&#8217;s the first real tree we&#8217;ve had since the horrible <a title=\"Infestation\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1903\">cinara aphid incident<\/a> (I can still see, in my mind&#8217;s eye, the legions of bugs marching across my floor. Ick!). This new tree smells beautiful, and it&#8217;s one of the best-looking trees I&#8217;ve ever had. The kids did an awesome job picking it out. I just hope it doesn&#8217;t have any bugs lurking in it.<\/li>\n<li>We decorated the tree. We probably didn&#8217;t put up even half of my ornaments, but the tree looks pretty enough.<\/li>\n<li>I finished and ordered my annual photo album. It&#8217;s a relief to have it done.<\/li>\n<li>Charley arrived the morning after we decorated the tree. The kids were thrilled to see him. And I was thrilled, because I had given the kids permission to hunt for Charley in the morning, so they were awake, dressed, and downstairs before I got up. Not having to roust them out of bed made my life so much easier!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now if only I could magically finish up the Christmas shopping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reached several important Christmas-prep milestones over the last few days. We bought a Christmas tree. A real tree! It&#8217;s the first real tree we&#8217;ve had since the horrible cinara aphid incident (I can still see, in my mind&#8217;s eye, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=11369\">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":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}