{"id":15884,"date":"2014-12-26T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15884"},"modified":"2014-12-27T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T14:48:20","slug":"a-christmas-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15884","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna dreamed of\u00a0a Fitbit. Polly pined for\u00a0a sound bar. I wished for\u00a0a telephoto lens. We each\u00a0got what we most wanted … a Christmas miracle! Shame on me for not remembering what we asked Amazon to leave under the Las Vegas Woodfords’ tree, but I expect our son and his family got their hearts’ desires too.\u00a0We had a great Christmas, you?<\/p>\n

Our house was a wreck,\u00a0not a single decoration up, yet somehow it all came together Christmas Eve. Good thing, too, because we’d invited a gang over for a party. I boiled shrimp and cooked\u00a0up a big pot of clam chowder; our friends all came to share the feast. Christmas tunes\u00a0on the stereo; Christmas Story on the DVD, all that. It was pretty great, I must say.<\/p>\n

Christmas morning was quiet and happy (happier still after Donna and Polly made our traditional post-unwrapping breakfast of eggs Benedict); later we drove across town to share dinner with friends at their house.<\/p>\n

Today is a day for reflection, I guess. I’m reflecting on how different Christmas is from other holidays. I marvel\u00a0that\u00a0the Christmas spirit still is a thing with me,\u00a0hardened cynic that I’ve become.
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\nAnd I am cynical. Irreligious too. But I think Christmas, no matter one’s\u00a0religion or lack of it, is a great idea, good for us and good for society. We’re\u00a0at our best when we’re in a giving and sharing mood, and Christmas is kind of a truce, isn’t it? Shut up. Yes it is.<\/p>\n

No, I will not be spending good money\u00a0to watch The Interview. C’mon, sheeple, don’t you know when you’ve been had<\/a>? Also: am I the only person who has a hard time telling Seth Rogan and Adam Sandler apart?<\/p>\n

What’s on for today? Trying out that new telephoto lens, that’s what! Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna dreamed of\u00a0a Fitbit. Polly pined for\u00a0a sound bar. I wished for\u00a0a telephoto lens. We each\u00a0got what we most wanted … a Christmas miracle! Shame on me for not remembering what we asked Amazon to leave under the Las Vegas Woodfords’ tree, but I expect our son and his family got their hearts’ desires too.\u00a0We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,2],"tags":[472,57,1749,1750],"class_list":["post-15884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-cooking","category-personal","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-happiness","tag-the-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884","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=15884"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}