{"id":310,"date":"2013-12-16T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/christmas\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:32","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had to organize something over the phone, and the man on the end of that very long, very invisible connection was extremely pleasant, and his &#8216;pleasantness&#8217; somehow spread across the entire day. We sometimes forget the effect that a word (or a few words strung together) can actually have on others.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CHADhM-kUQI\/Uq7jEEklGAI\/AAAAAAAABEk\/e7SqcnCkDvc\/s1600\/flowers.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"52\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CHADhM-kUQI\/Uq7jEEklGAI\/AAAAAAAABEk\/e7SqcnCkDvc\/s320\/flowers.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This will probably be my last post before Christmas, and I hope that all of you, wherever you are, have a happy, peaceful Christmas period. For those of you who do not celebrate Christmas, I still hope that the period is both happy and peaceful.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had to organize something over the phone, and the man on the end of that very long, very invisible connection was extremely pleasant, and his &#8216;pleasantness&#8217; somehow spread across the entire day. We sometimes forget the effect that a word (or a few words strung together) can actually have on others. This will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/christmas\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}