{"id":417,"date":"2011-12-24T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-12-24T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T21:14:45","slug":"a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tree-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tree-2011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-418\" \/><\/a>               <\/p>\n<p>I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 2011, Dear Readers.  Let us take a day off from our troubles and enjoy a beautiful holiday with lots of lovely eats and presents.  In the spirit of the season, allow me to give you the gift of a Christmas story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?page_id=403\"><em>Claire&#8217;s Mother<\/em><\/a>, by my very own dear spouse Donald Koozer.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Butch3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Butch3-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This short story first appeared in a literary magazine called <em>Bellowing Ark<\/em> back in 2009.  I loved it from the first, because as you know, at Christmas time, a Mystery Story can easily become a Mystical Story.  To read, click on the green title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?page_id=403\"><em>Claire&#8217;s Mother<\/em><\/a>, or on &#8220;Short Story&#8221;, above.  <\/p>\n<p>From our house to yours, peace and blessings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 2011, Dear Readers. Let us take a day off from our troubles and enjoy a beautiful holiday with lots of lovely eats and presents. In the spirit of the season, allow me to give you the gift of a Christmas story, Claire&#8217;s Mother, by my very own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}