{"id":8228,"date":"2019-12-23T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2019-12-23T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:41:00","slug":"a-minimalist-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/a-minimalist-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A minimalist Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jett and I will be in our RV, alone, on Christmas.\u00a0 There isn’t a lot of Christmas spirit in our “house on wheels” this year due, largely, to Jett’s health. Or lack thereof.\u00a0 But we are making a feeble attempt.\u00a0 Jett insisted that I pull the box of Christmas decorations out of the shed and set them up.\u00a0 It took about 30 minutes, in warm weather, so it was a mere shadow of the day-long effort in sub-freezing temperature of years past.\u00a0 And it was an opportunity to see if the switched external outlets on the shed work.<\/p>\n

They do.<\/p>\n

So we have a minimal set of Christmas decorations in place.\u00a0 Which is more than some – many have no decorations at all.\u00a0 But to remind us of our place in the Christmas decoration universe, out neighbor around the corner put us to shame.\u00a0 Our two sites, side-by-side:<\/p>\n

\"Ours\"<\/a>

Ours<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Theirs\"<\/a>

Theirs<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jett and I will be in our RV, alone, on Christmas.\u00a0 There isn’t a lot of Christmas spirit in our “house on wheels” this year due, largely, to Jett’s health. Or lack thereof.\u00a0 But we are making a feeble attempt.\u00a0 Jett insisted that I pull the box of Christmas decorations out of the shed and … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-28I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}