{"id":5303,"date":"2024-12-04T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:05:48","slug":"decorated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5303","title":{"rendered":"Decorated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took us a few days, but we got the great room decorated, including trimming both our artificial and natural (and we hope live) tree to the nines. This may be the best real Christmas tree we\u2019ve ever had as a couple, and our hope is that with careful watering it will keep us until Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>If we have to take it down sooner, well, the experiment was worth doing. Here\u2019s a shot of our real tree, in the corner by the bar:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"IMG_1020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1020_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1020\" width=\"540\" height=\"716\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t use the bar for drinking, so it presents a nice place for decorations, this year including our creche and Carol\u2019s Plasticville Farm, complete with farm animals and a corral of giant bichons:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"IMG_1021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1021_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1021\" width=\"540\" height=\"407\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to set up the Lionel trains this year, including my father\u2019s 1926 set that is now 98 years old. The venerable #250 electric loco still rips around the track as it doubtless did when my dad was a toddler. We\u2019ll also be running Carol\u2019s Lionel set from the late \u201850s; however, the trains will have to wait until after the cleaning service goes through and mops the tile floor.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll take some pictures of the artificial tree and will post them as time permits. We\u2019ve started Christmas a little early this year, just to see what it\u2019s like to get all Christmas-y on November 29 instead of December 15th or so. Like I said, I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took us a few days, but we got the great room decorated, including trimming both our artificial and natural (and we hope live) tree to the nines. This may be the best real Christmas tree we\u2019ve ever had as a couple, and our hope is that with careful watering it will keep us until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}