{"id":658,"date":"2008-12-15T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:08","slug":"slowing-down-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2008\/12\/15\/slowing-down-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing Down for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a title=\"[The Giving Tree]  @ Tallulah's Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70285332@N00\/3100070409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><small><a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>photo credit: <a title=\"Torley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70285332@N00\/3100070409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torley<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Okay truth is, I&#8217;ve already slowed down. <strong>I only posted once last week and I&#8217;ll continue to do so until the New Year.<\/strong> I&#8217;m sorry I am so delayed in informing you of my holiday dawdling.<\/p>\n<p>For my family, December holds a whole host of celebrations. It is my only brother&#8217;s birthday, my father&#8217;s birthday, Hanukkah and Christmas. I am Christian by birth, but my husband, Daniel, is Jewish.\u00a0 And while we have celebrated the holidays together before, this will be our first as husband and wife and in our own home.<\/p>\n<p>For me, December is full of so much merriment, love and family. I am truly thankful.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you celebrate, I wish you all the love and joy the Holiday season can bring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"[The Giving Tree]  @ Tallulah's Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70285332@N00\/3100070409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ChristmasTree.jpg\" alt=\"[The Giving Tree]  @ Tallulah's Cafe\" width=\"458\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><small><a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"Torley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70285332@N00\/3100070409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torley<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Okay truth is, I&#8217;ve already slowed down. <strong>I only posted once last week and I&#8217;ll continue to do so until the New Year.<\/strong> I&#8217;m sorry I am so delayed in informing you of my holiday dawdling.<\/p>\n<p>For my family, December holds a whole host of celebrations. It is my only brother&#8217;s birthday, my father&#8217;s birthday, Hanukkah and Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}