{"id":110,"date":"2007-12-24T18:15:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2007-12-24T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T17:15:43","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bauble-1.jpg\" title=\"bauble.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bauble-1.jpg\" alt=\"bauble.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m a &#8216;grown up&#8217;, Father Christmas doesn&#8217;t visit the way he used to, and my current school doesn&#8217;t do nativity plays, I still get childishly excited around this time of year, and now it is Christmas Eve the butterflies have already started!<\/p>\n<p>It is true what they say though &#8211; I&#8217;m starting to find as I grow older and perhaps wiser that the best kind of excitement at Christmas derives from the giving &#8211; not the receiving. It is finding that one special item for a loved one that shows how much you care, and how much thought has gone in to finding\/making them the perfect gift&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I can not wait until tomorrow morning to see Neil&#8217;s eyes light up  when he unwraps his &#8216;Barbie Mini-Van&#8217; and &#8216;glitter fun&#8217; accessories.<\/p>\n<p>I just know he&#8217;s going to love them!<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>I have a sneaking suspicion that 2008 might be a good one&#8230;.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I&#8217;m a &#8216;grown up&#8217;, Father Christmas doesn&#8217;t visit the way he used to, and my current school doesn&#8217;t do nativity plays, I still get childishly excited around this time of year, and now it is Christmas Eve the butterflies have already started! It is true what they say though &#8211; I&#8217;m starting to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}