{"id":139,"date":"2009-12-24T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:20:01","slug":"its-over-christmas-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s over, Christmas and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Christmas. I\u2019ve always looked forward to this magical time of the year, when the streets are brightly lit up with colourful festive decorations and the stores packed with terrific discounts and cheery shoppers. And, not forgetting the delightful gift exchanges and lovely christmas reunions.<\/p>\n<p>But Christmas has never been good to me.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year of disappointing Christmases, I think it\u2019s finally time to let this holiday go. No more crazy hopeful dreams about Christmas. No more expectations that it\u2019ll be better than it ever was.<\/p>\n<p>Time to keep it real.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Christmas. I\u2019ve always looked forward to this magical time of the year, when the streets are brightly lit up with colourful festive decorations and the stores packed with terrific discounts and cheery shoppers. And, not forgetting the delightful gift exchanges and lovely christmas reunions. But Christmas has never been good to me. Year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}