{"id":1539,"date":"2007-12-25T23:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2007-12-25T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T07:17:01","slug":"merry-xmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a sacred religious ritual today: I went to eat Chinese food with Jewish friends. He even bought lunch and at the end he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas!&#8221; and we both laughed. I suggested next time we should invite our Muslim co-worker as well.<\/p>\n<p>Other than walking down to the Chinese Restaurant I didn&#8217;t do all that much today. I watched <em>A Christmas Story<\/em> last night and I watched <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em> (the 1951 version with Alastair Sim) today. Other than that, not much other than walk my sister&#8217;s goofy dog Dede. Lately, Dede doesn&#8217;t seem to want to go for a walk. We&#8217;ll get out the door and she just stands there, shivering. I have to carry her across the street before she gets the idea. I think she just wants to sleep next to the heat register.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/deedle.jpg\" title=\"Dede sleeping by the heat register.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/deedle.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dede sleeping.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silly dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a sacred religious ritual today: I went to eat Chinese food with Jewish friends. He even bought lunch and at the end he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas!&#8221; and we both laughed. I suggested next time we should invite our Muslim co-worker as well. Other than walking down to the Chinese Restaurant I didn&#8217;t do all that much today. I watched A Christmas Story last night and I watched A Christmas Carol (the 1951 version with Alastair Sim) today. Other than that, not much other than walk my sister&#8217;s goofy dog Dede. Lately, Dede doesn&#8217;t seem to want to go for a walk. We&#8217;ll get out the door &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Xmas.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}