{"id":156,"date":"2006-12-18T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/tinsel-sucks"},"modified":"2017-08-21T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T05:58:07","slug":"tinsel-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/tinsel-sucks","title":{"rendered":"Tinsel Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously. Who came up with that crap?<\/p>\n<p>You have a perfectly nice Christmas tree with lights and garland and a buttload of ornaments. Great. But no. You go one step too far and decide the tree needs tinsel as a finishing touch. If you weren&#8217;t a complete idiot, it might look halfway decent, but even then, tinsel is a pain in the ass even for those of us with brains.<\/p>\n<p>Tinsel is a one way ticket from nice tree to stringy piece of crap. Save Christmas. Leave it off your tree.<\/p>\n<p>Although the only good tinsel I know of is that stuff from the movie <i>The Santa Clause<\/i> which they use to bust Santa out of jail. Now that tinsel rocks. Regular tinsel? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously. Who came up with that crap? You have a perfectly nice Christmas tree with lights and garland and a buttload of ornaments. Great. But no. You go one step too far and decide the tree needs tinsel as a finishing touch. If you weren&#8217;t a complete idiot, it might look halfway decent, but even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/tinsel-sucks\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tinsel Sucks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}