{"id":120,"date":"2002-12-10T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/12\/10\/im-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas\/"},"modified":"2002-12-10T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T01:25:40","slug":"im-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/10\/im-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Dreaming of a White Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"balcony_small.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/balcony_small.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\">Paula and I lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.springfield.mo.us\/\">Spring\u00adfield, MO<\/a> for around five years, and so we were extreme\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00aded to hear that they were hav\u00ading a snow\u00adstorm last week.<\/p>\n<p>Paula got <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=puckish&amp;db=*\">puck\u00adish<\/a> and sug\u00adgest\u00aded that I spread a lit\u00adtle hol\u00adi\u00adday cheer, and so I sent my friends back in MO a pic\u00adture from our bal\u00adcony along with this note: <\/p>\n<p><i>I just saw a weath\u00ader report for the Ozarks, and it filled me with such sor\u00adrow. How I miss the snow and ice!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"small_bridge.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/small_bridge.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\">I took a pic\u00adture from my bal\u00adcony a few min\u00adutes ago with you in mind. Look at what Paula and I are forced to tol\u00ader\u00adate day after day\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mer\u00adry Christ\u00admas,<\/p>\n<p>Glen<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"small_suv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/small_suv.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\">Nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, this pro\u00advoked a few spir\u00adit\u00aded email respons\u00ades.<\/p>\n<p>What most sur\u00adprised me was how many peo\u00adple respond\u00aded by send\u00ading back a dig\u00adi\u00adtal pho\u00adto of their own. I\u2019ve uploaded two of the best so you can con\u00adtrast them with my own provoca\u00adtive shot.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d just like to wish all my friends in the state of Misery\u2013I mean, Missouri\u2013a very Mer\u00adry Christ\u00admas.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I\u2019m wear\u00ading shorts and a trop\u00adi\u00adcal print shirt as I write this. I\u2019d say I\u2019m dream\u00ading of a white Christ\u00admas, but I don\u2019t think a min\u00adis\u00adter should tell <b>white lies<\/b>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in which I send a provoca\u00adtive pic\u00adture to my friends in Mis\u00adsouri, and they respond with pho\u00adtos of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}