{"id":1868,"date":"2010-12-25T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2010-12-25T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T13:12:46","slug":"december-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"December 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I wanted to title this one happy Saturday but then I decided to stay consistent&#8230;.since this is just another day to us non-believers serving out our forced exile&#8230;.okay, that&#8217;s a little harsh&#8230;especially after seeing &#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221; this morning&#8230;one of the funniest movies ever made and one that distilled what Christmas was like when I was growing up; what life was like when I was growing up. It made me think of the path that got me to here; how the little kid that used to be is now the old guy&#8230;.and the simpler times that were. Oh, well&#8230;not going to wallow in that today&#8230;.had a nice night last night with movies, a few cocktails, and slept okay&#8230;.well&#8230;I do feel a little slow but that&#8217;s to be expected. Not much to do today&#8230;I&#8217;ve already told you that I&#8217;m making a rib roast today&#8230;32 bucks of great looking beef that I&#8217;m going to cook bleeding and then add glazed carrots and baked potatoes with fresh baked bread and au jus&#8230;.yeah, I know&#8230;it&#8217;s inconsistent that I&#8217;m cooking a special dinner on just a Saturday&#8230; but it&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve had red meat that I just had to&#8230;don&#8217;t know if any of the boys are coming over but that&#8217;s okay&#8230;just going to veg all day and watch some tv&#8230;might get another one out later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I wanted to title this one happy Saturday but then I decided to stay consistent&#8230;.since this is just another day to us non-believers serving out our forced exile&#8230;.okay, that&#8217;s a little harsh&#8230;especially after seeing &#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221; this morning&#8230;one of the funniest movies ever made and one that distilled what Christmas was like when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 25th<\/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-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}