{"id":3201,"date":"2011-12-13T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2011-12-13T00:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:47:46","slug":"monday-night-christmas-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/13\/monday-night-christmas-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; christmas spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out Christmas\u00a0 for a bit tonight.. downtown and in Williston.. and it <em>almost <\/em>felt alright.\u00a0 Holidays are still very hard for us.. I&#8217;m guessing that they always will be. Christmas is particularly hard.. now.. I still think about buying stuff for three kids.. now it&#8217;s two.. The sight of decorations and music\u00a0 has put me in a very dark place these last five years.. but somehow.. this year is a little better. I was able to walk around shipping without &#8216;going there&#8217; .. I still don&#8217;t have much stomach for shopping.. but seeing other happy folks shopping made me feel..well&#8230; happy .. and\u00a0 that&#8217;s a bit of a breakthrough. I&#8217;m going out again on Wed night with a bunch of freinds.. I&#8217;m hoping that I again find it ok being immersed in the Christmas spirit.. I&#8217;ll let you know..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out Christmas\u00a0 for a bit tonight.. downtown and in Williston.. and it almost felt alright.\u00a0 Holidays are still very hard for us.. I&#8217;m guessing that they always will be. Christmas is particularly hard.. now.. I still think about buying stuff for three kids.. now it&#8217;s two.. The sight of decorations and music\u00a0 has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/13\/monday-night-christmas-spirit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; christmas spirit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-christmas-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}