{"id":144,"date":"2015-12-02T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-12-02T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:07:27","slug":"christmas-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/2015\/12\/02\/christmas-times\/","title":{"rendered":"christmas times"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>a holiday reflection by [jada]<\/h6>\n<p>It is finally that time of year. It\u2019s Christmas time. I know I\u2019m a little early, but I know everyone has memories of Christmas. Like when they got some new Jordans, an iPhone 5s or an LG. Christmas is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year. But the sad thing is that homeless people don\u2019t get to get presents, and so if I was rich, I would give all the presents in the world to them. Have you ever wondered where your taxes go to? They go to the secret Santa (or the mayor, maybe) and then in downtown Indianapolis they give them out. But the only bad thing about Christmas is Black Friday. People always fight and argue. So let\u2019s get back to the good part. Do you remember the gingerbread man. Oh wow! He is so sweet, like a cookie. Well, he is. I thought of him from the movie <em>Shrek. <\/em>Remember when the king cut his leg? \u2018Oh snap!\u2019 the gingerbread man said. Wonderful Christmas times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a holiday reflection by [jada] <\/p>\n<p>It is finally that time of year. It\u2019s Christmas time. I know I\u2019m a little early, but I know everyone has memories of Christmas. Like when they got some new Jordans, an iPhone 5s or an LG. Christmas is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year. But the sad thing is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307993],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}