{"id":15302,"date":"2013-01-11T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:00:40","slug":"the-day-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The day before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up in northern New Hampshire, happy to spend the afternoon trudging around in the snow.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15310\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_31941\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31941.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31941.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31941.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15310\" alt=\"121224_31941\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31941.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15309\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_31960\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31960.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31960.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31960.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15309\" alt=\"121224_31960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31960.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay outside long enough though and Nana Holt will put you to work.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_31998\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31998.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31998.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31998.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15306\" alt=\"121224_31998\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31998.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15307\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_31996\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31996.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31996.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31996.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15307\" alt=\"121224_31996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31996.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_32021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32021.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32021.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32021.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15305\" alt=\"121224_32021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32021.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_31983\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31983.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31983.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31983.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15308\" alt=\"121224_31983\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_31983.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting &#8220;melted snowman&#8221; cookies together for Santa and his reindeer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15304\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/the-day-before-christmas\/121224_32033\/\" 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data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32034.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image- data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32034.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32034.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15303\" alt=\"121224_32034\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/121224_32034.jpg?resize=560%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sugar crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up in northern New Hampshire, happy to spend the afternoon trudging around in the snow. Stay outside long enough though and Nana Holt will put you to work. Getting &#8220;melted snowman&#8221; cookies together for Santa and his reindeer. Sugar crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11,53,44,15,22,27,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chilling","category-exercise","category-exploring","category-family","category-grandparents","category-holidays","category-psyched","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pl9oj-3YO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15315,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}