{"id":1579,"date":"2017-12-26T01:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T07:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2017-12-26T01:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T07:29:31","slug":"what-are-traditions-christmas-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/what-are-traditions-christmas-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Traditions: Christmas 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/juHSQUzN-CizCw58KZ1qBEQSWnp9Lh-TgTjsvzwLvHv_kf1-YteVHQAyWl6-LGd_URCDf4bjoJPMTfGpvkF1VeC8zT7mCMSrDsWHtE37U7hlnRm1YK_2QD0KPoK4HLXEEbSz04BFxa68dPrOzVefbDTem--vrWimzYQQdraFOqqufSkHabpG54Lf1uyFo7oT2c0PMPaAAWklpXadR8Rwka4rad-Wx2NOeLtLZX5t_dZERgorui36pIP17Ew7qZ6Htf8Y7-5Z7Q_UDMO_tJP3YIHxdavbwVm3D5OypKv_wo2Z8LtIaucrFwi8SGtFZ3iE86rKHq_5cItLuJjFjbUU58UOvy8T2NA_R5buujatKDhFMAu6hR6z_Q3Hs4k9YbbW-Gsb4snkFnO2HPvfdd-LCfxCPShtVJSJo9DCZ4ajMs3AUAJfwid9QKIOGKAqdEqvrU32cFeeewFfKDqAP-IeltL72hW7-UQ5bDlKP0nMJBXqrOobegIIfvOmJd5zQfWZ6kwL6Ng6pDgfSlqwjD86GzUI_cNrhkY_SEcdB-s_mkapQOH-Auw68Ly5mCEkdrHZcnR3i-_1z17YPkkyOGCLnbQ0VMbfTuSH2AbG3QGkp8-gJ3RU50jUvHIkt1j5zFjHZEyuf2wjRu7BvE8gJw6iwRk8sWuxTmpgeg=w1206-h905-no\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why post a portrait when you already got everyone&#8217;s best sides?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After just a few hours of sleep, I managed to get up early enough for Summer to come over and watch my Christmas movie,\u00a0<em>Gremlins<\/em> with me. When lunch was ready, she left and I headed to my parents&#8217; house to meet up with family.<\/p>\n<p>Julie wanted to take us all to see\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em> in the evening, so I invited everyone over to watch\u00a0<em>The Force Awakens<\/em> to refresh ourselves on the new storyline. Julie and Andy left almost immediately because my cats tried to murder her immune system, but my parents and I finished the movie.<\/p>\n<p>I killed the rest of the evening time waiting to go to the movie, then met everyone at the theater. I thought the movie was pretty entertaining, but the plot did feel a bit contrived. Overall, I guess it did its job of passing the baton. Someone in charge definitely made an attempt to follow the recent trend of making serious movies funnier. It didn&#8217;t completely fit with tradition, but it got some cheap laughs.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s all a machine, partner. Live free: don&#8217;t join.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just a few hours of sleep, I managed to get up early enough for Summer to come over and watch my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,36,37,31,33,5],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditions","tag-family","tag-food","tag-friends","tag-holiday","tag-movie","tag-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}