{"id":8305,"date":"2014-12-25T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2014-12-25T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:30:13","slug":"christmas-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still early Christmas morning, December 25, 2014. \u00a0Waiting for the rest of the family to wake up so we can start the day. \u00a0Right now it&#8217;s just the pets and me enjoying a glorious sunrise. \u00a0My parents will join us shortly, then the kids will be up and before long it will be the sounds of ripping paper, laughs and many happy faces. \u00a0For now, it&#8217;s calm, restful and peaceful. \u00a0 The lights are on now on the Christmas tree inside. \u00a0Coffee with a shot of whipped cream in it since it&#8217;s the holiday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8308 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/43-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"43\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/43-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/43.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s easy today to\u00a0remember the Christmas mornings of childhood and all those fantastic feelings come back at once. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a picture of my dad, my sister and me in 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still early Christmas morning, December 25, 2014. \u00a0Waiting for the rest of the family to wake up so we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-j-smith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}