{"id":1016,"date":"2013-12-14T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2013-12-14T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T00:12:44","slug":"eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snowman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1017\" alt=\"snowman\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snowman-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snowman-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snowman.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Remember the holiday village I gave away?\u00a0 I also gave away loads of ornaments.\u00a0 Today, I unpacked a box with eight, yes eight, ornaments.\u00a0 Man, that was a teary moment.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I gave lots of the ornaments to our children.\u00a0 Just today, my daughter-in-law gave me a bag of ornaments &#8211; knowing I had given away so many of mine.\u00a0 Well, there in the bag were many old friends!\u00a0 There\u00a0was one\u00a0that our son made when he was three and another he made at five.\u00a0 I showed them to his son and he was amazed his dad could have made such great ornaments when he was &#8220;practically a baby&#8221;.\u00a0 Luckily there are always holiday helping hands at pre-school and kindergarten!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the\u00a0snowman in the photo.\u00a0\u00a0Made from thrift store bits and pieces, with a bit of new stuffing and a new hat!\u00a0 He\u00a0will now join the next generation of holiday\u00a0fun.\u00a0 What&#8217;s old is new.\u00a0 Simplify&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the holiday village I gave away?\u00a0 I also gave away loads of ornaments.\u00a0 Today, I unpacked a box with eight, yes eight, ornaments.\u00a0 Man, that was a teary moment. The good news is that I gave lots of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}