{"id":1523,"date":"2006-12-25T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2006-12-25T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:48:40","slug":"christmas-2006-the-good-the-bad-and-the-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2006: The Good, the Bad, and the Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><br \/>\n[-] Getting to fly up to Seattle a few days early<br \/>\n[-] Time with my godmother and some of my mom&#8217;s other college friends<br \/>\n[-] Time with my family<br \/>\n[-] Time with my brother&#8217;s girlfriend<br \/>\n[-] Emily, the calico kitty<br \/>\n[-] Teaching my younger cousins how to play Uno<br \/>\n[-] Midnight Mass &#8212; it was worship nirvana in most ways<br \/>\n[-] Seeing longtime people at my grandparents&#8217; church who recognize me<br \/>\n[-] Christmas Eve dinner with 14 people last night<br \/>\n[-] Being part of helping <a title=\"Pisco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.episcosours.com\">Pisco<\/a> celebrate his first Christmas<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad<\/strong><br \/>\n[-] Having to be away from Jon<br \/>\n[-] Having to leave at 3:30 am for the airport<br \/>\n[-] The laptop bag I have (not a backpack so no even distribution of weight)<br \/>\n[-] Sea-Tac&#8217;s luggage handling abilities (it took a freaking hour to get my parents&#8217; luggage)<br \/>\n[-] Seattle traffic<br \/>\n[-] Finding out that my box of presents got left at the airport (AVIS thankfully found them and is holding them for me)<br \/>\n[-] Stores on Christmas Eve<br \/>\n[-] The first Christmas without my grandfather<br \/>\n[-] People having to go home<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Presents (Thus Far)<\/strong><br \/>\n[-] Some money<br \/>\n[-] <em>The Song of Songs<\/em> in Hebrew and English with notes<br \/>\n[-] <em>A River Runs Through It<\/em> on DVD<br \/>\n[-] A nice calendar<br \/>\n[-] Foodstuffs from parishioners (especially homemade jams and jellies)<br \/>\n[-] Chocolate-covered cherries from one of my favorite people<br \/>\n[-] Gifts of sheep from the <a title=\"The Heifer Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\">Heifer Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good [-] Getting to fly up to Seattle a few days early [-] Time with my godmother and some of my mom&#8217;s other college friends [-] Time with my family [-] Time with my brother&#8217;s girlfriend [-] Emily, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1523\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-family","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-oz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}