{"id":4276,"date":"2024-12-23T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2024-11-23T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T13:07:03","slug":"merry-christmas-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is Christmas again. Let&#8217;s make the most of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is to be posted two days before Christmas. I write it a month earlier than that. I have looked back at a few Christmas blog posts and repeat some of the words from some of the prior ones. Funny how they still are true.<\/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 isn&#8217;t so happy. What to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Celebrate as much as you can. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help others as much as you can. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you can\u2019t be with someone, call them and tell them you wish you could see them and hug them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wish well for others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Show kindness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And on the day after Christmas&#8230;do the same. And the day after that&#8230;do the same. Repeat daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is Christmas again. Let&#8217;s make the most of it. This is to be posted two days before Christmas. I write it a month earlier than that. I have looked back at a few Christmas blog posts and repeat some of the words from some of the prior ones. Funny how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}