{"id":69,"date":"2004-12-05T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/its-beginning\/"},"modified":"2004-12-05T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T21:04:41","slug":"its-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/its-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to look a little bit like Christmas around here!<\/p>\n<p>Remember my <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/000671.shtml\">list<\/a> of things to do?  I&#8217;ve made my gift list and checked it twice, and today I put in a gigantic order through Amazon for about 75% of the gifts.  (I love the internet!)  I think I can get the rest of the shopping done this week.  (I think I can, I think I can&#8230;)  If I can just have everything wrapped up and under the decorated tree in my nice clean house before my birthday next Sunday, I&#8217;ll feel like things are under control.  (Note that this requires cleaning the house, too&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to go look at some artificial trees tonight.  I&#8217;m not sure I want one, but it might be the best option at this point.  If we don&#8217;t find a reasonably priced nice one, though, we&#8217;ll just have to get a real tree tomorrow.  And I&#8217;m going to get out the candles for the windows and the train set for the mantel tonight.  The neighbors are going to think we&#8217;re Grinches if we don&#8217;t start decorating soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to look a little bit like Christmas around here! Remember my list of things to do? I&#8217;ve made my gift list and checked it twice, and today I put in a gigantic order through Amazon for about 75% of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}