{"id":7109,"date":"2014-12-18T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2014-12-20T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:44:05","slug":"christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7109","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7111\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7111\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Tree\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7111\" data-wp-pid=\"7111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141218_095376.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Tree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been described as The Grinch and as Ebenezer Scrooge because of my attitude towards Christmas decorations. Those titles aren&#8217;t entirely fair&#x2014;I quite like Christmas, I certainly don&#8217;t want to rob others of their joy, and don&#8217;t even mind Christmas decorations&#x2014;but it&#8217;s true that I could do without a lot of what I call the &#x201c;winterization&#x201d; of Christmas. It isn&#8217;t just the secularization of what is, first and foremost, a Christian holiday. It&#8217;s the transformation of it into a religious holiday of non-Christian form. That probably makes no sense to anyone and I don&#8217;t feel like writing a long dissertation on what I mean, so I&#8217;ll just leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we generally are lucky to get our tree up enough before Christmas that the decorations are on by the 25<sup>th<\/sup>. This year, however, a week before Christmas and not only is the tree up, but it&#8217;s got lights, decorations, and even wrapped presents under it (which are usually done late on Christmas eve). So, Happy Christmas, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been described as The Grinch and as Ebenezer Scrooge because of my attitude towards Christmas decorations. Those titles aren&#8217;t entirely fair&#x2014;I quite like Christmas, I certainly don&#8217;t want to rob others of their joy, and don&#8217;t even mind Christmas decorations&#x2014;but it&#8217;s true that I could do without a lot of what I call the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}