{"id":707,"date":"2007-11-08T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/11\/08\/tis-the-season\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T23:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T03:24:45","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/11\/08\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More guys in suits<br \/>\ndrool in anticipation of<br \/>\nwrapping their pudgy fingers<br \/>\naround all that cash<br \/>\nthan ever <em>Dickens&#8217; orphans\u2122<br \/>\n<\/em>could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>They will soon be exhorting<br \/>\nevery frazzled employee<br \/>\nto deck the malls<br \/>\nand ring out the musak<br \/>\nof the <em>Holiday Season\u2122<br \/>\n<\/em>until we <em>buy, buy, buy!\u2122<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let us pause, bow our heads<br \/>\nand remember the sacred origin<br \/>\nof this hallowed season which was<br \/>\ninvented by Druids to distract us<br \/>\nfrom <em>stuffing and roasting<\/em><em>\u2122<br \/>\n<\/em>all shopkeepers in the blackest night of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More guys in suits drool in anticipation of wrapping their pudgy fingers around all that cash than ever Dickens&#8217; orphans\u2122 could have imagined. They will soon be exhorting every frazzled employee to deck the malls and ring out the musak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/11\/08\/tis-the-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,7,3],"tags":[135,57,138,133,107,128],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","tag-christmas","tag-humour","tag-philistines","tag-satire","tag-seasonal","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}