{"id":418,"date":"2014-12-24T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:45:53","slug":"happy-yule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Happy Yule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yule-goat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yule-goat.jpg\" alt=\"That's one festive goat! \" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yule-goat.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yule-goat-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s one festive goat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The wheel of the year rolls on, and it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yule\"><em>hj\u00f3l<\/em><\/a>. Whether you&#8217;re celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas\">Christmas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Rd1Pyu9_rxo\">Hanukkah<\/a> or other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G%C3%A4vle_goat\">midwinter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bd\/Vatican_Christmas_Tree.jpg\">religious festivals<\/a> may the season bring you blessings and the new year challenges and joys.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to a family dinner tomorrow, which should be crazy with the fun. I&#8217;m looking forward to a big helping of turkey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/turkeybean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/turkeybean.jpg\" alt=\"Well, it's stuffed, I guess.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/turkeybean.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/turkeybean-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, it&#8217;s stuffed, I guess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My personal celebration involves a quiet 24th with a nice meal and the ritual viewing\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrooge_(1951_film)\"><em>Scrooge<\/em><\/a> (the Alastair Sim version is the only one worth watching) and a wee nip of Tim&#8217;s special recipe egg-nog.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe, stay warm, and remember to hold your loved ones close, and a happy yuletide to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wheel of the year rolls on, and it&#8217;s hj\u00f3l. Whether you&#8217;re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah or other midwinter and religious festivals may the season bring you blessings and the new year challenges and joys. I&#8217;m off to a family dinner tomorrow, which should be crazy with the fun. I&#8217;m looking forward to a big helping &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Yule!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-humor","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}