{"id":573897721,"date":"2024-12-24T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897721"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:23:14","slug":"christmas-eve-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/christmas-eve-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a white Christmas Eve! Almost. It was the kind of snow that stuck to stone, but couldn&#8217;t manage to hang on anywhere that wasn&#8217;t pre-chilled. And there wasn&#8217;t much to it. Even still, it looked pretty for a few moments.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec49.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And at 11:59 p.m. last night my last two classes of the semester ended. When they asked me if I would like to teach 8-week classes it didn&#8217;t occur to me to look at the end date of the term. Lesson learned. <\/p>\n<p>So I spent a bit of the early a.m. hours grading some quizzes and discussions. I still have to evaluate the final assignments, and then tally the scores. But that&#8217;s what Thursday will be for, I&#8217;m sure. <\/p>\n<p>When I was outside looking at the snow on the pavers, I heard the honking, and looked up, just in time for this happy little composition. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec50.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About an hour later, we were sitting inside chatting about this and that and I heard the honking again. Look how the sky had changed <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec51.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The geese had big holiday travel plans. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x9brips\"\n    style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"\n    allowfullscreen\n    title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"\n    allow=\"web-share\"><br \/>\n  <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m going to go to the grocery store, and maybe the drug store, just to get out of the house. I have been so focused on trying to wrap up my grading I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve left in several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a white Christmas Eve! Almost. It was the kind of snow that stuck to stone, but couldn&#8217;t manage to hang on anywhere that wasn&#8217;t pre-chilled. And there wasn&#8217;t much to it. Even still, it looked pretty for a few moments. And at 11:59 p.m. last night my last two classes of the semester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897721","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897722,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897721\/revisions\/573897722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}