{"id":1928,"date":"2011-12-31T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2014-09-28T06:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:38:57","slug":"36521-christmas-do-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36521-christmas-do-dads\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#21: Christmas Do-dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Days-365+21-Xmas-stuff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1931\" title=\"Days 365+21 Xmas stuff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Days-365+21-Xmas-stuff-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>First of all: I\u2019m NOT Anti-Christmas. As both a religious holy day and secular holiday, I think it holds meaning by honoring our humanity and promoting generosity and peace. This is good.<\/p>\n<p>But what about all those Christmas do-dads that often decorate our homes. I don\u2019t mean candles, lights, nativity scenes, Christmas trees, stockings, etc. I mean figurines, ashtrays, baskets, dolls, and the like that have a Christmas theme but to my mind are rather tacky. (OK, instant disclaimer: I realize that one person\u2019s tacky is another person\u2019s sentimental treasure.) But whatever qualifies as Christmas clutter in YOUR home, perhaps it\u2019s time to prune the pearls from the superfluous. Remember the first rule of Christmas physics: \u201cWhat goes up, must come down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this spirit I searched around and found the following items that don\u2019t add grace to our Christmas d\u00e9cor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 stuffed Christmas figures (a moose and a snow-lady<\/li>\n<li>4 Christmas baskets<\/li>\n<li>4 miscellaneous figurines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some have beauty but none have a good display place without crowding stuff. The problem is \u2013 who or where do I take these things without just passing the clutter on to my neighbor or folks who have much higher priorities (like food and shelter)\u00a0 than a few trinkets? I suppose a homeless shelter or soup kitchen would be worthy of a little Christmas cheer, but will these items really do it? I don\u2019t know. What do YOU do with unwanted Christmas do-dads other than just pass them on to others in a white elephant sale?<\/p>\n<p>PS: Notice that in an extreme exercise of self-restraint, I haven\u2019t yet indulged my favorite Advent rant about how our society hurries Christmas before its time and starts to celebrate before December 25. Does anybody know when the 12 Days of Christmas really are? \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all: I\u2019m NOT Anti-Christmas. As both a religious holy day and secular holiday, I think it holds meaning by honoring our humanity and promoting generosity and peace. This is good. But what about all those Christmas do-dads that often decorate our homes. I don\u2019t mean candles, lights, nativity scenes, Christmas trees, stockings, etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-fun","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}