{"id":4554,"date":"2012-11-22T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/11\/22\/jolly-good-times-ahead\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:27:58","slug":"jolly-good-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2012\/11\/jolly-good-times-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolly Good Times Ahead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dome in Edinburgh have got their Christmas decorations up. That may get up your nose. Personally I rather like it.<\/p>\n<p>The streets of Edinburgh are teaming with people. Locals, jolly, red faced, portly, happy. Tourists swam in their droves. German, Japanese, Spanish, Polish you name it they are thronging through our streets. There is a feeling of optimism in the air. There is.<\/p>\n<p>So news programs stop it. Stop focussing on the negative. The bad news. The financial dramas of the day. Just look up. The sky is the blue. The air is clean. A meal is likely just an hour or two away.<\/p>\n<p>Accentuate the positive.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminate the negative.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026spleen venting for the optimistic done.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dome in Edinburgh have got their Christmas decorations up. That may get up your nose. Personally I rather like it. The streets of Edinburgh&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}