{"id":24167,"date":"2019-01-23T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24167"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:50:27","slug":"a-new-christmas-straggler-2018-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/a-new-christmas-straggler-2018-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Christmas Straggler 2018 Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it sort of emerged.  I found another Christmas decoration in the first place you would think I would look: The mantel in the living room.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/straggler2018.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a litte sculpture that was hidden behind a framed photo.  I found it when I was dusting.  I think it&#8217;s supposed to be a church.  One of my sons made it two years ago, when he was ten.  And he&#8217;s no worse with the polymer clay than I am.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re right, it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve dusted the mantel this month, and I would have found it earlier if only I were a better housekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m too busy blogging for my seven daily Google-search readers a day to bother with maintaining or improving the place I live.  Besides, after nine years, we&#8217;ve about sucked the blood out of Nogglestead, and it might be getting time to find a new host.<\/p>\n<p>And here I thought I caught the annual Christmas Straggler <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/the-christmas-stragglers-2019\/\" target=\"_new\">two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it sort of emerged. I found another Christmas decoration in the first place you would think I would look: The mantel in the living room. It&#8217;s a litte sculpture that was hidden behind a framed photo. I found it when I was dusting. I think it&#8217;s supposed to be a church. One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24169,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167\/revisions\/24169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}