{"id":35976,"date":"2023-12-25T01:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35976"},"modified":"2023-12-25T01:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:51:39","slug":"enjoy-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/enjoy-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have determined that the biggest disconnect between theory and practice, a disturbingly vast gulf, is my ability to wrap presents. You just do <em>this<\/em>, and <em>this<\/em>, and then <em>this<\/em>, right? Yeah, and then I end up with something that looks like the faux presents that have been under the tree in a run-down mall for the past thirteen years&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s about 1:30 AM right now, and I think this is as close as I&#8217;m gonna get to being &#8216;ready&#8217; &#8211; it should be more, but it&#8217;s not. Still, we will have good food and family over (just a handful) and we&#8217;re all pretty mellow anyway. It&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>[Did you hear that, Fate? I said <em>fine<\/em>. That&#8217;s not a challenge.]<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;ll feature George Hrab, a musician and critical-thinker, the host of the Geologic Podcast (that has nothing to do with geology, but you&#8217;ll figure it out) over on the sidebar there. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geologicpodcast.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>, if you prefer. This is his holiday song, written quite some time back I think, but the sentiments are solid and inarguable.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3M7Ku7arJ4?si=Ls_t8uScCaui9Fzz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While I should add more, I&#8217;m too scatterbrained to tackle it at the moment. So I will wish you all a Happy Holidays, Season&#8217;s Greetings, and Be Mellow and Imperturbable. Enjoy the day, regardless of how you view it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016Lights1.jpg\" alt=\"christmas lights and reflections\" width=\"730\" height=\"509\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19727\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have determined that the biggest disconnect between theory and practice, a disturbingly vast gulf, is my ability to wrap presents. You just do this, and this, and then this, right? Yeah, and then I end up with something that looks like the faux presents that have been under the tree in a run-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7514,2691,7515,2692,7513],"class_list":["post-35976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-george-hrab","tag-happy-holidays","tag-i-dont-believe-in-christmas","tag-merry-christmas","tag-seasons-greetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}