{"id":1589,"date":"2007-11-11T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2007-11-11T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T21:10:33","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I give in. Christmas stuff is all around me and I cannot ignore it! Today I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/1971228276\/\">stocking stuffers<\/a> for the kids and yesterday I bought ornaments at the Market Day store and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/1971363164\/\">Pier One<\/a> just because I&#8217;ve found if you snooze, you lose. I don&#8217;t want to lose out because the stores feel it&#8217;s time to put out the Christmas decor even though it&#8217;s not yet Thanksgiving. I&#8217;m sorry for being a hypocrite. I&#8217;m still not putting up my decorations until December 15th, though. Well, maybe. You see, Joe built a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightbox\">lightbox<\/a> for me so now I&#8217;m having too much fun photographing all the ornaments and stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give in. Christmas stuff is all around me and I cannot ignore it! Today I bought stocking stuffers for the kids and yesterday I bought ornaments at the Market Day store and Pier One just because I&#8217;ve found if you snooze, you lose. I don&#8217;t want to lose out because the stores feel it&#8217;s time to put out the Christmas decor even though it&#8217;s not yet Thanksgiving. I&#8217;m sorry for being a hypocrite. I&#8217;m still not putting up my decorations until December 15th, though. Well, maybe. You see, Joe built a lightbox for me so now I&#8217;m having too much fun photographing all the ornaments and stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-photos","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}