{"id":759,"date":"2012-12-08T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2012-12-08T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:44:44","slug":"reflecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/12\/reflecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In amongst the increasing busy-ness of the &#8216;getting ready for Christmas&#8217; season, I am trying to make space for some daily reflection on what Christmas means to me, encouraged by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimelle.com\/paper\/1638\/journal-your-christmas-2012-sign-up-for-my-favourite-online-scrapbooking-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal Your Christmas<\/a> class (yes, it&#8217;s Shimelle again).<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of items on my list of things that would make Christmas &#8216;perfect&#8217;, and I have given them all up. If they get done, then that&#8217;s great. If not, then that&#8217;s great too. Far better to arrive at Christmas Eve feeling calm and relaxed than tense and stressed.<\/p>\n<p>So if the mood takes me, and I have time, I will bake shortbread and gingerbread. I will buy mince pies because I could never make enough to satisfy DH&#8217;s appetite for them. We will bring in the tree tomorrow and I will enjoy decorating it &#8211; and I will treasure the mixed colours of the decorations because they all have memories attached. It doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect to be good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=761\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-761\" title=\"Blog-8-Dec\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Blog-8-Dec-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Blog-8-Dec-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Blog-8-Dec-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Blog-8-Dec.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Why\u00a0 not join me in giving up your ideas of &#8216;perfection&#8217; this Christmas, and enjoy a &#8216;good enough&#8217; Christmas with a little less stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In amongst the increasing busy-ness of the &#8216;getting ready for Christmas&#8217; season, I am trying to make space for some daily reflection on what Christmas means to me, encouraged by the Journal Your Christmas class (yes, it&#8217;s Shimelle again). There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/12\/reflecting\/\">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":[56,5],"tags":[96,95],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-thinking","category-life","tag-christmas","tag-jyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}