{"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\/\">Springfield, MO<\/a> for around five years, and so we were extremely interested to hear that they were having a snowstorm last&nbsp;week.<\/p>\n<p>Paula got <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=puckish&amp;db=*\">puckish<\/a> and suggested that I spread a little holiday cheer, and so I sent my friends back in MO a picture from our balcony along with this&nbsp;note:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>I just saw a weather report for the Ozarks, and it filled me with such sorrow. How I miss the snow and&nbsp;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 picture from my balcony a few minutes ago with you in mind. Look at what Paula and I are forced to tolerate day after&nbsp;day\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas,<\/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\">Naturally, this provoked a few spirited email responses.<\/p>\n<p>What most surprised me was how many people responded by sending back a digital photo of their own. I\u2019ve uploaded two of the best so you can contrast them with my own provocative shot.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d just like to wish all my friends in the state of Misery\u2013I mean, Missouri\u2013a very Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I\u2019m wearing shorts and a tropical print shirt as I write this. I\u2019d say I\u2019m dreaming of a white Christmas, but I don\u2019t think a minister should tell <b>white lies<\/b>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in which I send a provocative picture to my friends in Missouri, and they respond with photos of their&nbsp;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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}