{"id":1169,"date":"2009-12-21T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:26:14","slug":"monday-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/getting-my-life-back\/monday-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8230;Winter Solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the shortest day as we run up towards Christmas!  And it looks like being a white one as I drove back last night to find a dusting of snow, and a little more in the car park outside the flat this morning!<\/p>\n<p>The last two weeks have continued to be busy both at work, as we clear the decks for next year&#8217;s activities.  I have been on a few visits to past haunts, and the weekends have also been spent catching up on things.  I have found the Christmas decorations for the blog though, and put those up yesterday, and at the same time updated the bloging software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with last year, we are not sending out Christmas cards, with the money we would have spent will be sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leukaemiacare.ork.uk\">LeukaemiaCARE<\/a>.  I will put the newsletter up here in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>However the highlight of the weekend was the celebration of my father&#8217;s 80th Birthday.  My sister and her family came down and we all went out for a meal &#8211; there are some photographs, but on my father&#8217;s camera &#8211; as soon as I get them I&#8217;ll post a couple up here!  Happy Birthday Dad (and Happy Birthday to Mum, for tomorrow.)<\/p>\n<p>And before signing off, I must mention my Godmother and &#8216;Honorary Aunt&#8217;, Eileen, in New Zealand, who wrote to me about 2 months ago.  A reply has been on my &#8216;To-Do&#8217; list since then!  I will reply &#8211; really &#8211;  but you are not forgotten, and we all wish you a very Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting before Christmas itself (I finish work on the 23rd &#8211; but until then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Onwards and Upwards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the shortest day as we run up towards Christmas! And it looks like being a white one as I drove back last night to find a dusting of snow, and a little more in the car park outside the flat this morning! The last two weeks have continued to be busy both at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-my-life-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}