{"id":634,"date":"2004-12-20T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=634"},"modified":"2004-12-20T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T23:19:30","slug":"its-that-time-of-the-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that time of the year again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> received a Christmas card from one of my mom&#8217;s sisters today. She promised to send me one the day we buried our mom. The card reminded me of the Christmas at home: Mom writing out cards for every each single familymember. Every year she must have sent out hundreds of them, hoping she didn&#8217;t forget anyone.\n<\/p>\n<p>I feel guilt, now that I&#8217;ve received a card from overseas. And the urge to run around the block and buy a couple of cards for family members who should have had a Christmas card from me. I think I&#8217;ll send a card after the holidays. A personal note will do for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a Christmas card from one of my mom&#8217;s sisters today. She promised to send me one the day we buried our mom. The card reminded me of the Christmas at home: Mom writing out cards for every each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}