{"id":707,"date":"2007-12-08T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2007-12-08T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:43:00","slug":"chestnuts-you-will-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Chestnuts You Will Roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">B A Start <\/span>estate has been decked out in holiday fashion.  Where one finds dead twigs during ordinary time, one now finds dead twigs with dead berries on them.  We&#8217;ve got a spindly, skellington-looking tree the branches of which can barely withstand the weight of our ornaments.   The presents are uniformly wrapped and stacked for maximum photo-opportunitousity.  A few miniature santa hats, positively garish by comparison are relegated to the distant bedroom, far from the eyes of house-guests and mail-carriers.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s Yoda Claus.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/R1rpUfN_agI\/AAAAAAAAALY\/YCX5XBWWBAo\/s1600-h\/yoda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/R1rpUfN_agI\/AAAAAAAAALY\/YCX5XBWWBAo\/s200\/yoda.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141678462783678978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B A Start estate has been decked out in holiday fashion. Where one finds dead twigs during ordinary time, one now finds dead twigs with dead berries on them. We&#8217;ve got a spindly, skellington-looking tree the branches of which can barely withstand the weight of our ornaments. The presents are uniformly wrapped and stacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}