{"id":3283,"date":"2020-12-24T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2020-11-25T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:27:19","slug":"merry-christmas-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/12\/merry-christmas-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I write this on November 25th. What will Christmas be in the year of the virus? I don&#8217;t know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big media\u2014network news and cable networks, the big newspapers\u2014have botched everything this year, and botched everything badly and obviously. Can&#8217;t look there for any accurate predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifty-one percent of the country is happy about the recent election. Fifty percent of the country thinks the election was fraught with fraud (that includes 30% of Democrats, so the fraud idea is not just on one side).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can the optimism of 51% carry the holiday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online shopping dominates, so people may be buying retail. There could be a run on toilet paper again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No hugging on Christmas Day. That isn&#8217;t allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are we to do? Who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Celebrate as much as you can. <\/li><li>Help others as much as you can. <\/li><li>If you can&#8217;t be with someone, call them and tell them you wish you could see them and hug them.<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t let someone else ruin your holiday. Recall, they&#8217;ve botched everything this year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I write this on November 25th. What will Christmas be in the year of the virus? I don&#8217;t know. The big media\u2014network news and cable networks, the big newspapers\u2014have botched everything this year, and botched everything badly and obviously. Can&#8217;t look there for any accurate predictions. Fifty-one percent of the country is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,402],"tags":[173,403],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-hope","tag-choose","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}