{"id":849,"date":"2007-12-04T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:16:17","slug":"its-december-and-christmas-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s December &#8230; and Christmas Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/photo5w.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Christmas Hat\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/photo5w.jpg?w=604&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Christmas Hat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas! I needed to go to Idaho Falls to my office there today. Nina wanted to go to Idaho Falls a do a couple of sessions at the Temple today. So, we met each other for the 11 a.m. session, had lunch together afterwards, and then she headed back to Pocatello and I went into the office to sign Christmas cards and meet with some of the people there.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home I stopped at Barnes and Noble to see if they had a book I wanted (they did &#8230; and two others besides). Because of the season, I wore one of my Christmas ties and put on my Christmas Elf hat. That resulted in some fun at Barnes and Noble. I made a Seesmic video blog about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/seesmic.com\/DScxRDS8f1\" title=\"Seesmic link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/seesmic.com\/DScxRDS8f1<\/a> so I could preserve it for posterity. &#8216;Tis the Season To Be Jolly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas! I needed to go to Idaho Falls to my office there today. Nina wanted to go to Idaho Falls a do a couple of sessions at the Temple today. So, we met each other for the 11 a.m. session, had lunch together afterwards, and then she headed back to Pocatello and I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=849\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s December &#8230; and Christmas Is Coming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-dH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}