{"id":1536,"date":"2012-12-26T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2012-12-26T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:30:24","slug":"happy-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/12\/26\/happy-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, as I\u2019m sure you well know, Christmas. Ethan and I opened our stockings before breakfast. We each got candy, a pair of socks, and a puzzle book. I also got pink nail polish. After a breakfast of peach scones, eggs, cereal, and pineapple, we opened the twenty-two presents under the tree. Since we decided not to buy name tags, Ethan and I selected each selected two random presents under the tree. If there were no objections, Ethan gave one to Mom and one to me while I gave one to him and Dad.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite present was first (and the world\u2019s smallest present): a picture of me with Dad\u2019s attempt at drawing the cover of <i>Take Me Home<\/i> on the back. One Direction\u2019s second album\u2019s music was on the computer. YAY!!!! Anyway, besides that I got a necklace, headbands, a Modern Family book, and a crossword puzzle book. I gave Ethan a chocolate bar, 32 rand so he could take someone mini-golfing, and <i>F in Exams<\/i>, a hilarious book with real test questions and real stupid answers. For Mom I got a dark chocolate bar, a little gold bar of chocolate, and a blue necklace. Dad received candy canes, an orange chocolate bar, and <i>Don\u2019t Look Behind You <\/i>from me.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to have a \u201ctraditional\u201d Christmas dinner. Instead of turkey we had chicken, along with green beans, cranberry salad, and sweet potatoes with pecans and raisins. Later we had pumpkin pie with Grapetizer.<\/p>\n<p>The whirring of helicopter blades reached us as we ate our pie. As we took our walk along the Promenade, we found that an eight-year-old girl had drowned and now they were looking for her body.<\/p>\n<p>At 9 pm we Skyped my mother\u2019s side of the family in California. When asked what we had for lunch, I replied, \u201cWe had sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry salad, and chicken instead of turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not vegetarian?!\u201d my cousin asked off-screen.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, as I\u2019m sure you well know, Christmas. Ethan and I opened our stockings before breakfast. We each got candy, a pair of socks, and a puzzle book. I also got pink nail polish. After a breakfast of peach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/12\/26\/happy-holiday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[172,20,176,140],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eryn-slug","tag-cape-town","tag-family-friends","tag-holidays","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}