{"id":135,"date":"2006-12-27T05:31:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-12-27T05:31:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:31:35","slug":"festivus-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Festivus for the rest of us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t looking forward to Christmas this year. Most of my relatives went out of town, taking with them the traditional family party I&#8217;ve attended for nearly twenty-five years&#8230; but it actually ended up being okay. I got $30 worth of Starbucks cards from work (even a gift card from one of the few customers I love helping with her seemingly endless number of transactions)&#8230; and even though I suffered a mild stroke when I heard that Starbucks discontinued its Valencia syrup (I used to put eight pumps of it in my Passion Tea Lemonade), I still appreciate the gifts. The white elephant gift I got from our office Christmas party ended up being this twenty questions game that took me back to a happier summer last year (and a Target gift card&#8230; who wouldn&#8217;t use that?). Pammie got me something from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/xmas\/index.htm\">wish list<\/a> (that will remain up for my birthday, people!) and I&#8217;m so excited to use my new headphones at the gym (and in my car since my radio is still broken). Chel made me this lovely painting and Shi got me a DIY book (SO me!). You can all thank Shi when I give you handmade soap for your birthdays. I hope you all had as good of a Christmas as I did and thanks to everyone who called or sent me a text even though I haven&#8217;t been around much. See you next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t looking forward to Christmas this year. Most of my relatives went out of town, taking with them the traditional family party I&#8217;ve attended for nearly twenty-five years&#8230; but it actually ended up being okay. I got $30 worth of Starbucks cards from work (even a gift card from one of the few customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}