{"id":378,"date":"2008-10-21T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:06:29","slug":"blended-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/blended-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Blended families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I ate at a popular national restaurant&#8211; never mind which one, but it rhymes with &#8220;Fracker Carol&#8221;&#8211; and in the adjoining store, I noticed that there were Hallowe&#8217;en objects mixed in with all of the normal year-round fare.<\/p>\n<p>That was all right, but here we are just getting October well under way, and they&#8217;ve already rolled out their Christmas merchandise, and it&#8217;s already starting to shoulder its way in among the other seasonal merchandise. <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, *that* juxtaposition is *not* graceful.  Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>I am fraught with the image of the three Wise Men delivering their gifts of gold, myrrh, and Frankenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I ate at a popular national restaurant&#8211; never mind which one, but it rhymes with &#8220;Fracker Carol&#8221;&#8211; and in the adjoining store, I noticed that there were Hallowe&#8217;en objects mixed in with all of the normal year-round fare. That was all right, but here we are just getting October well under way, and they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}