{"id":3308,"date":"2011-12-25T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T05:09:09","slug":"saturday-night-twas-the-day-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/25\/saturday-night-twas-the-day-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; &#8217;twas the day before christmas .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long peaceful day.. we all decided not to do much today&#8230; Diane went out this morning for an early morning grocery run.. but aside from that we pretty much stayed around the neighborhood&#8230;. settling into the holiday spirit. We kept one of Sam&#8217;s lamps burning all day to keep him as part of our day, too.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/553b9866.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center>The first order of business today was to finish decorating the tree.. The boys had decided that this year&#8217;s tree would be a pirate .. (last year a monster, the year before that a robot, &#8230; something different each of the last 5 years) .. They went up to the attic and fetched down our best pirate garb.. a skull mask. dreadlocks, a sword, a hook.. and sam&#8217;s pirate vest.. in only a few minutes our simple tree was transformed into the prettiest pirate tree you can imagine.. if that&#8217;s something you can imagine<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/adb5c0db.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/cdef347e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/e6c5177d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then it was time to decorate tree number 2. Each year we go out in the woods to decorate a tree for the animals. We headed up the Catamount trail . we bundled up as it was just about 13 degrees..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/39b1081d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/4784b338.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/e12485fc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/2720911b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/40f87ead.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/7f86f482.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we found a perfect little tree near one of our favorite swimming holes.. and started putting out the decorations, old bagels and doughnuts we&#8217;d gotten from the store. peanut butter, birdseed, old cereal, stale croissants . We&#8217;ll go clean up th string in the spring..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/64171fb4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/5647152b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/14775c1d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/8e71c65a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/81fcb1a5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/034b54c6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it was wonderful being all together today..\u00a0 i love my family so much !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/4e5c7c5e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/5ba15b27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/5bd9ddcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>later in the day we drove around the neighborhood visiting friends.. here we are at freind martha&#8217;s.. she had a really nice gathering at her house..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/ae16c44d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>she had one of the Sam ornaments we made on her tree..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/f2902dd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>now it&#8217;s about midnight.. I need to get some sleep&#8230;. I&#8217;ll be listening for reindeer.<\/p>\n<p>merry christmas everyone.., merry christmas sam&#8230; we&#8217;re missing you very much tonight..<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long peaceful day.. we all decided not to do much today&#8230; Diane went out this morning for an early morning grocery run.. but aside from that we pretty much stayed around the neighborhood&#8230;. settling into the holiday spirit. We kept one of Sam&#8217;s lamps burning all day to keep him as part &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/25\/saturday-night-twas-the-day-before-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; &#8217;twas the day before christmas ..<\/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":[358],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-twas-the-day-before-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}