{"id":1263,"date":"2016-12-04T15:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T03:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2016-12-04T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T03:10:56","slug":"jyc-2-counting-down-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2016\/12\/jyc-2-counting-down-to-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"JYC 2 &#8211; Counting down to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me the approach to Christmas is inexorably tangled with the arrival of summer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>roses blooming in the garden,<\/li>\n<li>the demand to complete the staff summer holiday leave plan comes out from the CEO,<\/li>\n<li>strawberry punnets are available at 2 for $5,<\/li>\n<li>the Summer Reading Programme staffer is at work &amp; the library is decorated to the theme (yachts this year),<\/li>\n<li>finding lists everywhere (other people&#8217;s in books and on tables at work; my own in various bags and piles at home),<\/li>\n<li>boxes of Christmas books are out for borrowing in the Children&#8217;s library,<\/li>\n<li>Greytown shops (and the library) have their swags of evergreens and lights hung from verandahs,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and there&#8217;s a feeling in the air of suppressed excitement and anticipation that makes me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me the approach to Christmas is inexorably tangled with the arrival of summer: roses blooming in the garden, the demand to complete the staff summer holiday leave plan comes out from the CEO, strawberry punnets are available at 2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2016\/12\/jyc-2-counting-down-to-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}