{"id":129078,"date":"2023-09-02T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129078"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:35:23","slug":"christmastime10am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/christmastime10am\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmastime10am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Time:<\/p>\n<p>As the season approaches<br \/>\nI close my eyes, smiling<br \/>\nas I sip my tea thinking<br \/>\nback to times past <\/p>\n<p>The weather was picture perfect<br \/>\nfor December-<br \/>\nSnow covering everything<br \/>\nwith a layer of sleepy cotton<br \/>\nbut look!<br \/>\nThere are some kids sledding<br \/>\ndown that steep hill<\/p>\n<p>Stepping into the house<br \/>\ni can smell Dinner in the oven<br \/>\nTurkey and stuffing<br \/>\nCranberry sauce and pies<br \/>\ncooling on the counter<br \/>\nlooks like Ham too.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, I am drooling over the<br \/>\nimages in my head<br \/>\ncertain that they are for real<br \/>\nSo real that I can taste them<\/p>\n<p>I can hear the laughter<br \/>\nas my brother tells some off color<br \/>\njoke or story that only us family and<br \/>\nclose friends would understand and<br \/>\nbond over.<\/p>\n<p>I see the manger scene<br \/>\ncenter stage on the mantle<br \/>\nright where we can all see baby Jesus<br \/>\non the bed of hay<\/p>\n<p>Sipping my tea once more<br \/>\nI feel the love in this house<br \/>\nSometimes I don\u2019t like to spend<br \/>\ntime here, preferring to do my own<br \/>\nthing<\/p>\n<p>But here, right now at christmas time,<br \/>\nI move heaven and earth to be here<br \/>\nbecause this is what it\u2019s all about<br \/>\nGood food<br \/>\nLaughter<br \/>\nReminiscing<br \/>\nand Love<br \/>\nMost of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Time: As the season approaches I close my eyes, smiling as I sip my tea thinking back to times past The weather was picture perfect for December- Snow covering everything with a layer of sleepy cotton but look! There are some kids sledding down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129089,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129078\/revisions\/129089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}