{"id":2534,"date":"2011-12-23T23:35:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2011-12-23T23:43:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T06:43:15","slug":"here-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/here-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Here already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year has gone by incredibly fast<\/em> – and this month in particular. I can hardly believe that Christmas is only a day away. <\/p>\n

Is it just me, or do the holidays feel like they’re rushing upon us like river rapids? <\/p>\n

I decided to keep things simple – my only decorations are my horizontal Christmas tree<\/em> (garland above my fireplace, with some of my favorite ornaments) and a collection of three small sparkly snowflake trees on the mantle. <\/p>\n

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I was inspired by my son’s Christmas plans<\/a>, and tried to keep gifts simple, but meaningful. Yet, despite my intention to make it a low-key Christmas<\/em>, I found myself rushing around to get gifts finished and mailed off in time to be received by the big day. <\/p>\n

I got some hair-brained idea that I wanted to sew some gifts this year (which is ridiculous, since I don’t sew)<\/em>. It really would have been much simpler and less time consuming to just go buy gifts. But no, once I got the idea, I was a woman possessed. So it’s my own fault that I lived in chaos (and fabric stores) for 2 weeks. <\/p>\n

And now, the holiday is upon us. Are you ready?<\/em> What exciting (or boring) plans do you have?<\/p>\n

Whatever your plans (and do please share them), I hope you have a wonderful Christmas – or whatever holiday you celebrate \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year has gone by incredibly fast – and this month in particular. I can hardly believe that Christmas is only a day away. Is it just me, or do the holidays feel like they’re rushing upon us like river rapids? I decided to keep things simple – my only decorations are my horizontal Christmas … Continue reading Here already?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}