{"id":1712,"date":"2012-11-28T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:55:09","slug":"hello-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Hello Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{1} We dog-sat over the holidays and it warmed my heart when I saw Peanut laying next to Maple (our friends&#8217; dog) \u00a0petting her gently. Then Peanut brought me to tears when she said, &#8220;I wish Maple was Lucie&#8221;, so matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n<p>{2} As holiday-lazy as I&#8217;ve been feeling lately, Peanut &amp; I kicked off the season with a girls skate date at the Embarcadero Ice Rink. Apparently, my skating skills aren&#8217;t good enough to give my daughter the confidence to let go of the wall. For the record, I did not fall&#8230;this time around.<\/p>\n<p>{3} I finally gave in and turned on the Christmas radio station and they happened to play my top 3 three songs in a row! {1} <a href=\"http:\/\/mog.com\/m\/track\/29869709?ci=40000\" target=\"_blank\">O Holy Night<\/a>\u00a0(they, unfortunately, played Leann Rimes&#8217; version)\u00a0{2} <a title=\"Rock it!\" href=\"http:\/\/mog.com\/m\/track\/18970091?ci=40000\" target=\"_blank\">Jingle Bell Rock<\/a> {3} <a title=\"Wham!\" href=\"http:\/\/mog.com\/m\/track\/14676695?ci=40000\" target=\"_blank\">Last Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>{4} I&#8217;ve been looking into <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/chandlerjandk\/elf-on-a-shelf-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elf on the Shelf<\/a> &#8211; part holiday fun, part behavioral enforcer. <em>Okay, TOTAL behavioral enforcer.<\/em> I&#8217;m leaning towards getting it, but I fear that Peanut&#8217;s belief in Santa may be coming to an end. (Some of these pins are hilarious &#8211; these people have more time than me, however.)<\/p>\n<p>{5} I think I&#8217;ve reached my turkey threshold &#8211; turkey soup, thanksgiving sandwiches, turkey <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tetrazzini\" target=\"_blank\">tetrazzini<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; today. Hello compost bin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{1} We dog-sat over the holidays and it warmed my heart when I saw Peanut laying next to Maple (our friends&#8217; dog) \u00a0petting her gently. Then Peanut brought me to tears when she said, &#8220;I wish Maple was Lucie&#8221;, so matter-of-factly. {2} As holiday-lazy as I&#8217;ve been feeling lately, Peanut &amp; I kicked off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}