{"id":9580,"date":"2014-12-23T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2014-12-23T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:59:44","slug":"alone-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9580","title":{"rendered":"Alone at Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been thinking about something to write today and just came up with an idea to talk about being alone at Christmas&#8230;now, most people have the idea that to be alone at Christmas is a lonely, bad thing and something needs to be done to make sure no one is alone on this supposed &#8220;special&#8221; day. Let me tell you this&#8230;.I am spending my 8th or 10th one alone and could not be happier&#8230;since I&#8217;m not a religious person&#8230;the whole idea of celebrating something tied to religion is anethema to me&#8230;it seems like doing it would be an acceptance of the religious underpinnings that are clearly fake&#8230;if there even was a Jesus, he certainly wasn&#8217;t born in December&#8230;but, that wouldn&#8217;t matter anyway&#8230;.all of this stuff is just fairy tales concocted by ignorant goatherders whose superstitions are being treated as fact by many of the people in this country&#8230;okay&#8230;that&#8217;s the end of my screed on religion&#8230;all I want to say is that I get to lie on my couch and read the paper, while I&#8217;m having a relaxing coffee and then get a nice bike ride in on Thursday&#8230;and, then make venison tacos for my dinner with the possibility of a nap thrown in there&#8230;I&#8217;ll bet my Christmas would be the one that many people would have if they could&#8230;I&#8217;m going to be relaxing&#8230;how about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been thinking about something to write today and just came up with an idea to talk about being alone at Christmas&#8230;now, most people have the idea that to be alone at Christmas is a lonely, bad thing and something needs to be done to make sure no one is alone on this supposed &#8220;special&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alone at Christmas&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9581,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}