{"id":1307,"date":"2013-12-24T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:38:08","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bisou-ready-for-Christmas-12.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bisou-ready-for-Christmas-12-300x200.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Bisou thinks she may hear reindeer outside, and she&#8217;s ready! I hope all of you reading this have a wonderful Christmas!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bisou thinks she may hear reindeer outside, and she&#8217;s ready! I hope all of you reading this have a wonderful Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[230,242],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-bisou","8":"tag-christmas","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bisou-ready-for-Christmas-12.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-l5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2663,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/happy-birthday-bisou\/","url_meta":{"origin":1307,"position":0},"title":"Happy birthday, Bisou!","author":"Sandy","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is Bisou's (pronounced Bee-zoo) birthday and she's\u00a0nine\u00a0now! 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