{"id":84,"date":"2007-11-26T21:50:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/getting-ready-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:12:45","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Torsten is ready to talk with Santa&#8211;I notice that he is quite prominently crossing his fingers.  I wonder if Torsten just finished telling Santa what a good boy he is and how he always goes to bed very easily for his mom and dad.  (I&#8217;m &#8220;guarding&#8221; his bedroom door now while I blog.. Maybe he&#8217;ll go to sleep sometime soon.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007xmas\/imgs\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/2007xmas\/imgs\/image1.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" height=\"477\" width=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torsten is ready to talk with Santa&#8211;I notice that he is quite prominently crossing his fingers. I wonder if Torsten just finished telling Santa what a good boy he is and how he always goes to bed very easily for his mom and dad. (I&#8217;m &#8220;guarding&#8221; his bedroom door now while I blog.. Maybe he&#8217;ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting ready for Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}