{"id":2659,"date":"2009-12-28T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2009-12-27T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:59:15","slug":"green-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/green-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a green Christmas for the first time I can remember. We&#8217;ve <em>nearly <\/em>had a green Christmas at least twice before. I distinctly remember one year back when I was around ten, or eight, or twelve (hey, it was a long time ago, the memory&#8217;s rusty) when it didn&#8217;t snow until Christmas day. And then it snowed dump trucks on us! I was so happy. Of course, I didn&#8217;t have to drive in it.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing happened about a decade ago. No snow until my brother and sisters had to brave the roads for Christmas dinner at my house. Then\u2014kablooey. Tons of snow.<\/p>\n<p>I know other areas of North America are getting pummeled with the chilly white stuff as I type. Is your part of the continent white or green?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, before I forget, congratulations to Lisa G., who won the <em>Super Secret Santa Give-Away<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodywritesitbetter.com\">Nobody Writes It Better<\/a>! My romantic comedy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Borrowing-Alex-Cindy-Procter-King\/dp\/1602729824\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1261961861&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">BORROWING ALEX<\/a>, was included in the give-away. I&#8217;ll get the book in the mail to you this week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who entered. I hear we had a good turn-out, which means we&#8217;ll hopefully hold another give-away next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a green Christmas for the first time I can remember. We&#8217;ve nearly had a green Christmas at least twice before. I distinctly remember one year back when I was around ten, or eight, or twelve (hey, it was a long time ago, the memory&#8217;s rusty) when it didn&#8217;t snow until Christmas day. And&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/green-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-give-aways","category-my-books","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}