{"id":6572,"date":"2012-12-17T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2012-12-17T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:25:08","slug":"christmas-embrace-it-and-your-friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2012\/12\/christmas-embrace-it-and-your-friends-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas &#8211; embrace it and your friends and family."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6576\" title=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>I have veered into shops with good intentions, spotted a throng of shoppers jostling for position, turned on my heel and left.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday I met my dear Mum in John Lewis \u2013 it looked like a\u00a0 Boxing Day sale so we skulked off for a coffee and left gift free but sane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So a week later still gift free and not quite as sane thanks to the disappointed faces of friends and relatives that flood into my head in those long\u00a0 dark hours in the middle of the night. The tut tutting of present obsessed relatives both past and present hove into view as I toss and turn and fail to get back to sleep. Yup losing it.<\/p>\n<p>And then something as sobering, real, tragic and visceral as the Connecticut\u00a0massacre happens and it stops you in your tracks. It brings home instantly the fact \u00a0friends and family are the only important and valuable thing any of us ever have. \u00a0Life without them is inconceivable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I intend to embrace them all from \u00a0red cheeked wee ones to the whiskery faced old ones savouring each moment.\u00a0 The only thing that matters are the things money can\u2019t buy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to you and yours.<\/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>I have veered into shops with good intentions, spotted a throng of shoppers jostling for position, turned on my heel and left. Last Monday I&#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\/6572"}],"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=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}