{"id":12372,"date":"2014-12-14T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2014-12-14T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:35:40","slug":"1st-day-of-christmas-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12372","title":{"rendered":"1st Day of Christmas A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m swearing off school board politics here until the tire is patched or otherwise. Until then, on very good advice, I&#8217;m sticking with safe subjects like Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I have my almost five year old Jacob Marley at my elbow (really) warning me of the Spirit of Christmas Present about to visit me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll begin each day until Christmas itself with a close up of one of my Mother&#8217;s ornaments. (Christmas Future just paid a call on me. I asked him if the future he showed me could be changed and he assured me it could be &#8211; really. He was also a great snowman in his Holiday pageant &#8220;Frozen.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7555\/15837263967_7163dafa7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The grim and silent Spirit of the future just returned after a costume change as the Spirit of Christmas Past. I&#8217;ll post a picture tonight to prove it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m swearing off school board politics here until the tire is patched or otherwise. Until then, on very good advice, I&#8217;m sticking with safe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12376,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions\/12376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}