{"id":54,"date":"2002-12-29T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-29T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/29\/the-best-christmas-ever\/"},"modified":"2002-12-29T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-29T08:05:00","slug":"the-best-christmas-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/29\/the-best-christmas-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Christmas Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that it was, as always, The Best Christmas Ever. I really, really like Christmas.<BR> Sometimes, because I&#8217;m generally a nut, people awkwardly pause, formulate the question so as to not offend me, and ask me if I celebrate Christmas. Gentle reader, rest assured I celebrate Christmas. (I hate to think I&#8217;m giving off the vibe that I&#8217;m a Christmas-hater)<BR> I don&#8217;t really do the Santa Claus thing though, maybe that&#8217;s why people get the wrong idea. My main reason for this is that I&#8217;m going to have to tell my kids &#8220;heroin is bad for you&#8221; and I don&#8217;t want old lies lurking in the back of their skulls. Also, deep down, I think that Santa Claus is made up to include, and be non-offensive to foreigners and commie-freaks. &#8220;Look, you&#8217;re in America. It&#8217;s a Christian nation, get with the program.&#8221;<BR><A HREF=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\"><IMG TITLE=\"Stolen from slashdot, I just love that little picture.\" CLASS=\"right\" WIDTH=\"80\" HEIGHT=\"91\" src=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blog\/images\/20021229.gif\"><\/A> So Baby sees the Mall Santa and calls him &#8220;Christmas Tree Man&#8221;. Pretty funny.  It&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re hiding the Santa Claus thing, we just don&#8217;t really think much about it. She&#8217;s a little young this year, for the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.minbuza.nl\/default.asp?CMS_ITEM=MBZ302881\">Sinterklass<\/A> story, but it&#8217;s a pretty good one. Better than the whole chimney-deal by a long shot.<BR> There&#8217;s a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=sinterklaas&#038;spell=1\">wealth of information<\/A> out there, but most of it&#8217;s in Dutch.  <P>Anyway, Happy Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that it was, as always, The Best Christmas Ever. I really, really like Christmas. Sometimes, because I&#8217;m generally a nut, people awkwardly pause, formulate the question so as to not offend me, and ask me if I celebrate Christmas. Gentle reader, rest assured I celebrate Christmas. (I hate to think I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/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-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}