{"id":700,"date":"2004-12-23T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T12:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=700"},"modified":"2004-12-23T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T12:44:33","slug":"happy_festivus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Happy Festivus"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who is the product of an interfaith marriage, I appreciate the OC’s<\/a> contribution the holiday lexicon: Chrismukkah<\/a>. Even though I’m a Bright<\/a> and don’t have much attachment to any of the winter holidays, I do have a string of lights hung up in my living room. For me, it’s more about marking the passage of time. This year is coming to a close and a new one will soon begin. I think it’s more than appropriate to take a little time out from the banalities of life, hang out with people close to you, and indulge in your chosen version of merry-making. To paraphrase Scrooge, you keep the season your way and I’ll keep it in mine.
\nI got a phone call from my sister a little while ago, who breathlessly informed me that she received an acceptance letter from William Mitchell College of Law<\/a>. A big congratulations to her. I’ll have to begin teaching her the secret handshake. And I should start arranging the requisite midnight initiation rites. Let’s see, where did I put that ceremonial blade? And does anybody know where I can buy a goat for cheap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who is the product of an interfaith marriage, I appreciate the OC’s contribution the holiday lexicon: Chrismukkah. Even though I’m a Bright and don’t have much attachment to any of the winter holidays, I do have a string of lights hung up in my living room. For me, it’s more about marking the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}