{"id":165,"date":"2006-12-27T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/27\/not-over-yet"},"modified":"2006-12-27T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:59:08","slug":"not-over-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/27\/not-over-yet","title":{"rendered":"Not Over Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby decree&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Christmas is not over!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Damn, you people are so quick to put all the ornaments and lights away. Just because you&#8217;ve already opened your presents and gotten sloshed on egg nog doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s all finished and time to pack it up. Hell no. There&#8217;s another week and a half left. Really, its only purpose is leaving the decorations up, but, hell, why not?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still Christmas until January 6, folks. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the classic carol &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas&#8221; a lot and wondered to yourself &#8220;what twelve days are they talking about?&#8221; Well, I&#8217;ll tell you what twelve days. It runs from December 25 to January 5. And January 6 is Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day.<\/p>\n<p>So, our decorations are STILL up. I&#8217;m STILL wearing my Santa Claus pin. Our tree is STILL lit. You are STILL a moron. That clear? Good.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby decree&#8230; Christmas is not over! Damn, you people are so quick to put all the ornaments and lights away. Just because you&#8217;ve already opened your presents and gotten sloshed on egg nog doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s all finished and time to pack it up. Hell no. There&#8217;s another week and a half left. Really, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/27\/not-over-yet\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Over Yet&#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":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-decrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}