{"id":40320,"date":"2023-12-23T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=40320"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:00:52","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40323\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/12\/23\/happy-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/12\/23\/happy-holidays\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40323 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/christmas-tree-w-barb-reflect-resize.webp\" alt=\"happy holidays -merry-christmas-tree-ornament\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Holidays! This old favorite Christmas tree ornament dates to the mid-twentieth century. It was a gift of family friend. <em>Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are having a Merry Christmas at my house this week. Hope your holidays are bright as well. That&#8217;s it for now. More soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tales from Christmases past at &#8220;A <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2022\/12\/10\/a-widows-christmas-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Widow&#8217;s Christmas Card. Where&#8217;s Jon When I Need Him Most?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2016\/12\/15\/christmas-is-big\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Christmas Is Big. Bigger Than Christianity.&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/12\/23\/happy-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/12\/23\/happy-holidays\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40325 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/christmas-ornament-red-one-resiz.jpg\" alt=\"vintage-christmas-tree-ornament\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping my mid-winter greetings short and sweet today: May your holiday season be warm and bright! Happy Holidays!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/12\/23\/happy-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35,2382,2805,2806,2807,1361,2808,1637],"class_list":["post-40320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-tree","tag-christmas-tree-ornaments","tag-decorations","tag-happy-holidays","tag-holidays","tag-vintage-ornaments","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48880,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions\/48880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}