{"id":124,"date":"2013-01-29T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/?p=124"},"modified":"2013-02-03T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T15:36:59","slug":"a-christmas-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/a-christmas-ornament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/xmas-wageningen-boat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-125 alignleft\" title=\"Sailboat ornament\" alt=\"xmas-wageningen-boat\" src=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/xmas-wageningen-boat-300x280.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/xmas-wageningen-boat-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/xmas-wageningen-boat-332x310.jpg 332w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/xmas-wageningen-boat.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a> Among the items that go onto our Christmas tree every year is this glass boat. It looks a bit dilapidated, but it came from my husband&#8217;s parents and as such is a cherished part our tree. It measures about four inches long. The hull is a golden brown color, and the stays are very thin crinkly wire.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part to me is that my father-in-law \u00a0was an atheist (his father&#8217;s family was Lutheran, and his mother&#8217;s was Jewish), and my mother-in-law was Jewish. And yet, they had a Christmas tree. To blend in with the neighbors? To not make their kids feel different? Every year I take out the boat, and hang it on my tree, and think about what loving people they were, and how I and my kids were so lucky to have known them. But how you can&#8217;t really know anybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the items that go onto our Christmas tree every year is this glass boat. It looks a bit dilapidated, but it came from my husband&#8217;s parents and as such is a cherished part our tree. It measures about four inches long. The hull is a golden brown color, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-christmas","column","onecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}