{"id":5290,"date":"2018-12-21T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2018-12-21T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:06:47","slug":"on-the-whatever-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/on-the-whatever-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cON THE (WHATEVER) DAY OF CHRISTMAS\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5293\" width=\"171\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, so the \u201ctwelve days of Christmas\u201d don\u2019t officially start until the 25th or the 26th, depending on the source.  But, what the heck, in the \u201cspirit of Christmas Spirit\u201d I figured I\u2019d start early.<br> So, on the (whatever day of Christmas minus whatever days,) the Evil Princess can honestly say \u201cMy true love gave to me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> It is good that I had enough survival awareness to give her more than <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">that,<\/g> because had that been all her Christmas presents, my return gift from her would have been more like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5292\" width=\"205\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xmas2018_1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, a little whimsy and a little laughter go with the whole Christmas Spirit thing, right?  I realize that some grim things are happening right now in the world of gun owners\u2019 civil rights, but I also think we can wait until after Christmas to deal with them here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Hoping you all can enjoy the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the \u201ctwelve days of Christmas\u201d don\u2019t officially start until the 25th or the 26th, depending on the source. But, what the heck, in the \u201cspirit of Christmas Spirit\u201d I figured I\u2019d start early. So, on the (whatever day of Christmas minus whatever days,) the Evil Princess can honestly say \u201cMy true love gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}