{"id":215,"date":"2009-12-25T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-12-25T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:10:00","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa must have recovered from his pre-flight routines in time to complete his rounds. His database must have crashed though, I didn&#8217;t get a lump of coal!<\/p>\n<p>Question of the day: why did I get a wrapped roll of toilet paper with a note in the center that said &#8220;the real gift goes with this&#8221;? At least it wasn&#8217;t this classic knit Cthulhu mask:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTh6GShZGI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/w_w8i-fSQBI\/s1600-h\/Cthulhu%20ski%20mask.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTh6GShZGI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/w_w8i-fSQBI\/s320\/Cthulhu%20ski%20mask.jpg\" width=\"250\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I know that Santa is tired today &#8211; if for no other reason than the fact he has the wrong date on his calendar.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzThnVc90yI\/AAAAAAAAAfw\/J7Y4mWg1gew\/s1600-h\/Tired_Santa_Claus_After_Christmas.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzThnVc90yI\/AAAAAAAAAfw\/J7Y4mWg1gew\/s320\/Tired_Santa_Claus_After_Christmas.jpg\" width=\"255\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Of course that may be because of his legal troubles with Mrs. Claus:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTinqZPvhI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/7rOQHmOK-Ws\/s1600-h\/061218_freedom_clause.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTinqZPvhI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/7rOQHmOK-Ws\/s400\/061218_freedom_clause.png\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Or it might even be the scurrilous campaign being conducted against him by the religious right:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTjI2j335I\/AAAAAAAAAf8\/_yXveviqxng\/s1600-h\/satan-santa.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SzTjI2j335I\/AAAAAAAAAf8\/_yXveviqxng\/s640\/satan-santa.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa must have recovered from his pre-flight routines in time to complete his rounds. His database must have crashed though, I didn&#8217;t get a lump of coal! Question of the day: why did I get a wrapped roll of toilet paper with a note in the center that said &#8220;the real gift goes with this&#8221;? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}