{"id":4539,"date":"2013-12-26T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T14:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2013-12-26T08:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:01:35","slug":"weve-rounded-the-christmas-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=4539","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve rounded the Christmas curve . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">. . . . . \u00a0and we&#8217;re speeding into the New Year&#8217;s holiday. Let&#8217;s all hope that the course is a safe one. Christmas was almost drama free, so generally a nice day. I called my friends from other states and countries yesterday and this morning, a tradition for me that I truly love. It&#8217;s always nice hearing their voices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year I did something on a spur of the moment that gave me a nice feeling. Ed called me to tell me of Ryan&#8217;s Christmas wish, told to a mall Santa Clause, of getting a garbage truck for Christmas. Ed thought I would enjoy the story. Well, I did enjoy the story and I went online and found a truck for $15 and had it wrapped for another $5, wrote up a card and signed it Santa Clause. Free shipping made it a $20 gift to a kid whose parents are split. When I talked to Ed yesterday he told me that the truck was the last thing Ryan opened and looking at the wrapped package he said &#8220;I hope that this is my garbage truck, Santa promised.&#8221; When Ryan saw the truck he was speechless. \u00a0Ed claims that the truck hasn&#8217;t left his side since he opened it. Another garbageman is born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4540\" alt=\"IMG_0961\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961.jpg\" width=\"1530\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0961-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4541\" alt=\"IMG_0962\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962.jpg\" width=\"1196\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0962-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" \/><\/a>Anyway, that&#8217;s my Christmas story.<\/p>\n<h6>Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored, they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . . . \u00a0and we&#8217;re speeding into the New Year&#8217;s holiday. Let&#8217;s all hope that the course is a safe one. Christmas was almost drama free, so generally a nice day. I called my friends from other states and countries yesterday and this morning, a tradition for me that I truly love. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=4539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;ve rounded the Christmas curve . . .<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}