{"id":8218,"date":"2014-12-19T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T11:58:05","slug":"smiles-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8218","title":{"rendered":"Smiles for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in three very long years, there are renewed smiles in the ol&#8217; BHD household.  Trust me, in the image below the jump, my spouse really is smiling  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas2014blog.jpg?resize=584%2C777\" alt=\"Christmas2014blog\" width=\"584\" height=\"777\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas2014blog.jpg?w=601&amp;ssl=1 601w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas2014blog.jpg?resize=300%2C399&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas2014blog.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas2014blog.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>My beloved spouse is actually looking forward to Christmas, and entertaining his mother.  I will drive to her home in western Pennsylvania to pick her up and bring her to our house this weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>I have concluded work for the year, so I am taking accrued vacation time through the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>My twin brother and his wife arrive to visit for the holidays on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I will be off-line for the next several days, so I may not write a blog again until right before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Be safe, be well, and remember &#8212; have faith while showing those you love how you love them.  <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because life is short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in three very long years, there are renewed smiles in the ol&#8217; BHD household. Trust me, in the image below the jump, my spouse really is smiling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}