{"id":1491,"date":"2013-12-31T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2014-01-02T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T15:03:47","slug":"christmas-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1492 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_5634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_5634.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I put together my list of all the holiday stuff we did this year, it made me realize how many things we did. \u00c2\u00a0And I thought of a few more that I wanted to do!<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it wasn&#8217;t the things we did or presents we got that made this a great Christmas. \u00c2\u00a0It was the time together, enjoying family and friends. \u00c2\u00a0This Christmas felt more relaxing than past ones. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe it is that the kids are older, that we have figured out all our events or that simply we do step back more and enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Santa brought the kids the gifts they asked for (plus more) and the love and generosity of family and friends was overflowing. \u00c2\u00a0The magic of Christmas was certainly felt. \u00c2\u00a0I have always loved Christmas and the holiday time of the year, but seeing it through the eyes of the boys and the magic they love, makes it even more special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_7852.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1493 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_7852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_7852-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_7852-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_7852-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I put together my list of all the holiday stuff we did this year, it made me realize how many things we did. \u00c2\u00a0And I thought of a few more that I wanted to do! Regardless, it wasn&#8217;t the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}