{"id":1142,"date":"2014-09-01T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1142-day-973-christmas-is-coming.html"},"modified":"2014-09-01T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:00:00","slug":"day-973-christmas-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1142-day-973-christmas-is-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 973, Christmas is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1642 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/973-_MG_9339.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt has kind of snuck up on me this year but apparently the festivities have already begun and Christmas is indeed coming.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPeople&#8217;s homes are becoming festooned with all manner of light shows. Some happy to just twinkle a little while others seem to be participants in full on visual warfare.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese huge hanging decorations at the Arkaba might be little output of place here but I am reminded that a few decorations for Christmas are in order.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 973, Christmas is Coming&#8217;, 1\/200 f\/2.8 ISO1600 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; It has kind of snuck up on me this year but apparently the festivities have already begun and Christmas is indeed coming. People&#8217;s homes are becoming festooned with all manner of light shows. Some happy to just twinkle a little while others seem to be participants in full on visual warfare. &#8230; <a title=\"Day 973, Christmas is Coming\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1142-day-973-christmas-is-coming.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 973, Christmas is Coming\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}