{"id":817,"date":"2005-12-14T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:12:36","slug":"better-late-than-neverright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Better late than never…right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week…seeing that we are nearing the ‘holiday’ season.
\nI found out that some of my readers don’t do Christmas. When I was little and I was told that a kid didn’t celebrate Christmas…I cried for them.
\nI tried one year to give Louisa Newcomb a present because I didn’t want her to not have anything to open on Christmas morning and she wouldn’t except it. I tried to convince her that she could hide it and her parents wouldn’t have to know.
\nShe explained to me that she just didn’t believe in Christmas and that to open that present on that day wouldn’t mean anything to her.<\/p>\n

I cried for her and never understood why her parents could be so mean as to take Santa away!<\/p>\n

I now understand…but I still want to give presents to those who don’t celebrate. I’m not sure if I am just a moron or I was shaken too much as a child.<\/p>\n

This week…so everyone will play:<\/p>\n

Something RED<\/p>\n

Something GREEN<\/p>\n

Something that you decorate.<\/p>\n

Next week, I’m going all Holiday…so don’t give us TOO much!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week…seeing that we are nearing the ‘holiday’ season. I found out that some of my readers don’t do Christmas. When I was little and I was told that a kid didn’t celebrate Christmas…I cried for them. I tried one year to give Louisa Newcomb a present because I didn’t want her to not have anything to open on Christmas morning and she wouldn’t except it. I tried to convince her that she could hide it and her parents wouldn’t have to know. She explained to me that she just didn’t believe in Christmas and that to open that present on that day wouldn’t mean anything to her. I cried for her and never understood why her parents could be so mean as to take Santa away! I now understand…but I still want to give presents to those who don’t celebrate. I’m not sure if I am just a moron or I was shaken too much as a child. This week…so everyone will play: Something RED Something GREEN Something that you decorate. Next week, I’m going all Holiday…so don’t give us TOO much!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}