{"id":165,"date":"2005-12-09T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-12-15T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:09:33","slug":"let-the-madnessbegin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2005\/12\/09\/let-the-madnessbegin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the madness&#8230;BEGIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/34\/73490512_3cd841e1a9.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/34\/73490512_3cd841e1a9_t.jpg\" alt=\"tree\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was at Walgreens the other day and couldn&#8217;t resist their sales on extension cords and Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>You know how when you see one of those houses that&#8217;s been covered to the last square inch with Christmas lights and other holiday paraphernalia?  Now I know how that happens.  Walgreens was selling 80 ft. of extension cord for $15, and you could get 600 Christmas lights for the same amount.  That&#8217;s over 140 ft. of illuminated holiday spirit!<\/p>\n<p>I managed to contain myself and only got a 40 ft. extension cord and 74 ft. of lights, which was plenty to plaster my bird feeder with tiny bulbs from top to bottom.  I think it looks great, and the birds don&#8217;t seem to mind it during the day.  The best part is the reddish-orange glow the &#8220;tree&#8221; casts on the snow in the back yard at night.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we&#8217;ll go out and get our tree and other miscellaneous trimmings.  Too bad Ava won&#8217;t have any memory of this Christmas, unless I manage to burn down the house; that would be memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Walgreens the other day and couldn&#8217;t resist their sales on extension cords and Christmas lights. You know how when you see one of those houses that&#8217;s been covered to the last square inch with Christmas lights and other holiday paraphernalia? Now I know how that happens. Walgreens was selling 80 ft. of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-2F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}