{"id":573880917,"date":"2010-12-15T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T05:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880917"},"modified":"2010-12-16T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:37:11","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis&#8217; the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKVhFEC\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec10\/dec16.jpg\" alt=\"Choir\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An angelic choir.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec10\/dec17.jpg\" alt=\"Choir\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was only a matter of time, really, before the truth came out.<\/p>\n<p>These are from a place called the Historical Christmas Barn. It is a store shaped like a barn. It is 20 years old. They also had Halloween displays, which look ancient in December.<\/p>\n<p>And then we visited the Christmas house tonight. It was full, just chock-full of Christmas decor that a woman pushing 70 has been collecting her entire life. She buys all of these things at yard sales. She has ancient ornaments, old kid&#8217;s ornaments, an entire historical collection of Santa images, more snowmen than you can possibly imagine. Every surface of her house is covered. <\/p>\n<p>She said it takes her a week to set everything up. And she has to take pictures each year to make sure her things don&#8217;t wind up in the same places every year.<\/p>\n<p>She showed us her guest book. She has a huge Christmas Eve party and the book has been signed for more than a quarter of a century. Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An angelic choir. It was only a matter of time, really, before the truth came out. These are from a place called the Historical Christmas Barn. It is a store shaped like a barn. It is 20 years old. They also had Halloween displays, which look ancient in December. And then we visited the Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-photo","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880919,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880917\/revisions\/573880919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}