{"id":15874,"date":"2014-12-22T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2014-12-22T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:03:44","slug":"smells-like-christmas-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15874","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Christmas Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to quote Bible verses, but Isiah 11:6 came strongly to mind when I glanced over at the couch last night and witnessed this peaceful scene:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"IMG_0974 by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/16080072022\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7524\/16080072022_df1f322b91.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0974\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another quote came simultaneously to mind, this one by Ronald Reagan: &#8220;Trust, but verify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the Christmas Truce has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to quote Bible verses, but Isiah 11:6 came strongly to mind when I glanced over at the couch last night and witnessed this peaceful scene: Another quote came simultaneously to mind, this one by Ronald Reagan: &#8220;Trust, but verify.&#8221; Clearly, the Christmas Truce has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}