{"id":33235,"date":"2024-11-08T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33235"},"modified":"2024-11-08T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:32:16","slug":"the-christmas-pre-straggler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/the-christmas-pre-straggler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Pre-Straggler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was it only <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/06\/a-little-christmas-retail-therapy-at-nogglestead\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a> where I bought and placed a little resin Santa on the upstairs mantel to see if anyone noticed?  Man, it has been a long year.  I guess that&#8217;s why I feel as though I have aged so much, although partly that has been not hitting the gym or the dojo often enough.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I decided that I would keep the tradition alive (although I honestly thought I&#8217;d skipped a year&#8211;I mean, this year has gone on forever&#8211;in 2024, the days were long, but the year was also long), and I looked for a cheap tchotchke at the Walmart.  I found one that was under $2 which is good because I no longer have a fulltime job and am not sure <strike>if<\/strike> when I&#8217;ll get another.<\/p>\n<p>Behold, the 2024 Christmas Pre-Straggler:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/church.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A little snow-covered church.  A part of what looks like could be a little tealight-fitting village set which means I can collect them all over the course of years.<\/p>\n<p>As with last year, I have just quietly placed it on the mantel, and we will see if anyone notices.  <\/p>\n<p>I might keep the tradition alive next year, but the year after that, the only <em>anyone<\/em> who might reside here to notice besides me might be my beautiful wife.  Unlikely, but possible.<\/p>\n<p>Also, &#8220;pre-straggler&#8221; is probably not the word I am looking for.  I should probably think of something else.  But I do have a whole year to mull that over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it only last year where I bought and placed a little resin Santa on the upstairs mantel to see if anyone noticed? Man, it has been a long year. I guess that&#8217;s why I feel as though I have aged so much, although partly that has been not hitting the gym or the dojo [&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-33235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33235","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=33235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33237,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33235\/revisions\/33237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}