{"id":207,"date":"2014-12-24T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/?p=207"},"modified":"2014-12-24T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:51:31","slug":"207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/207\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaking to a Blue Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-207-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/41-Blue-Christmas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/41-Blue-Christmas.mp3\">http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/41-Blue-Christmas.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BrianBest2014IMG_3177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-203 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BrianBest2014IMG_3177-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"BrianBest2014IMG_3177\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BrianBest2014IMG_3177-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BrianBest2014IMG_3177.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When it comes to Christmas, I must peak too early.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Christmas season starts the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, when we go to pick up wreaths to sell for Troop 2.\u00a0 Almost every weekend is taken up with wreath sales, along with regular Scout meetings and the regular hustle and bustle of the Christmas season.\u00a0 I enjoy helping other people, and even enjoy the shopping.\u00a0\u00a0 But by the time the week of Christmas arrives, when I should feel elation, I&#8217;m done with it.\u00a0\u00a0 Totally done with it.\u00a0 My poor family has to put up with someone who hums &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221; all the time. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Time to get back to church in the new year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ve not been peaking for the right reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When it comes to Christmas, I must peak too early.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Christmas season starts the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, when we go to pick up wreaths to sell for Troop&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/207\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peaking to a Blue Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}