{"id":76696,"date":"2011-12-26T00:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76696\/spent-dark-christmas\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T05:32:45","slug":"spent-dark-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76696\/spent-dark-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Dark Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800000\">I was planning a nice, quiet, basketball-filled Christmas.\u00a0 My family was gathered 2000 miles away, and I didn\u2019t have any local invitations, so I was going to spend the day lying around, celebrating the return of my favorite sport.\u00a0 Maybe Jesus was upset about the NBA lockout, because that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 Nature, the wind and a lightly-staffed holiday electric company combined to thwart my plans\u2026<br \/>\nx<\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800000\"><font color=\"#003300\"><br \/>\nSo I turned my back on basketball and Jesus Christ and decided to have a nice Jewish Christmas.\u00a0 Excellent Chinese food and a movie.\u00a0 The movie sucked.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#800000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">When the power came back on again 30 minutes or so ago, I&#8217;m not sure how I felt&#8230; Mixed feelings.\u00a0 There was something very peaceful about reading a book by candlelight, covered in blankets and a cat to keep warm on a very dark and quiet Christmas Night&#8230; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning a nice, quiet, basketball-filled Christmas.\u00a0 My family was gathered 2000 miles away, and I didn\u2019t have any local invitations, so I was going to spend the day lying around, celebrating the return of my favorite sport.\u00a0 Maybe Jesus was upset about the NBA lockout, because that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 Nature, the wind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}