{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-23T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/?p=633"},"modified":"2014-06-07T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T13:58:12","slug":"a-little-trouble-getting-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/archives\/633","title":{"rendered":"A little trouble getting in the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that this year I have had trouble getting in the Christmas Spirit. Not with the true meaning and spirit of Christmas the birth of Christ but just with I guess the secular Christmas stuff you might say? I am having trouble expressing this thought so before I twist this around to where no one can understand it let me just say it this way<\/p>\n<p>The birth of Christ our savior I am good with.<br \/>\nThe spirit of giving this time of year I am good with.<br \/>\nEverything else large and small in between I am\u00c2\u00a0just\u00c2\u00a0kind of\u00c2\u00a0blahhhh.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really explain why I have been blah this Christmas. \u00c2\u00a0The blessings that my family and I have received this year are truly too\u00c2\u00a0numerous\u00c2\u00a0to count. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe I am just tired and really need the next 13 days that I have planned off we&#8217;ll see. \u00c2\u00a0(but back to the point of the post)<\/p>\n<p>Then we get to today, when I received the video below in an email today from a friend. \u00c2\u00a0It just made me smile and just kicked me out of my Christmas Blah.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are\u00c2\u00a0experiencing\u00c2\u00a0the Christmas Blah this year I hope it does the same for you.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_927349917\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" controls preload=\"auto\" data-setup='[]'>\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JackRussellatXmas.mp4\" type='video\/mp4' \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\n<p>Thanks Kathy Smith for yanking me out of the Christmas Blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that this year I have had trouble getting in the Christmas Spirit. Not with the true meaning and spirit of Christmas the birth of Christ but just with I guess the secular Christmas stuff you might say? I am having trouble expressing this thought so before I twist this around to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-normal-entry","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tyCm-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}