{"id":300,"date":"2005-12-27T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-11-16T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:29:24","slug":"cold-and-snowy-vs-warm-and-fuzzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Cold and snowy vs. warm and fuzzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say, but I\u2019ve been appreciating the weather outside because the high temps are getting just above freezing (which is better than getting just above a negative number). However, even though I get a mild case of frostbite when I walk from my toasty house to my chilly car and then again when I get back out of the car by the time it\u2019s finally toasty, there are some moments in life that cannot be frozen over.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, I spent Christmas Day with my family at my brother\u2019s house. My parents, my brothers, their significant others, my step-niece, their cat\u2026 all of us eating brunch and enjoying each other\u2019s company. No overloading on turkey and falling asleep; no sitting down on the couch and not talking while watching football; no sitting in the corner, sticking our fingers in our ears and going \u201cLA-LA-LA-LA-I-CAN\u2019T-HEAR-YOU-LA-LA-LA!!!\u201d Sunday might not have been like our usual holiday gathering, but it felt very special nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, I want you to ignore the outdoor weather, get all toasty warm on the inside and I wish you all the best of times and hope you had\/are having\/will have a kick-ass holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say, but I\u2019ve been appreciating the weather outside because the high temps are getting just above freezing (which is better than getting just above a negative number). However, even though I get a mild case of frostbite when I walk from my toasty house to my chilly car and then again when I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold and snowy vs. warm and fuzzy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-4Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}