{"id":1403,"date":"2012-04-07T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/07\/christmas-in-april\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:26:25","slug":"christmas-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/07\/christmas-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in April?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My son-in-law has been “gently” hinting for a few years that he needed a new Christmas stocking. My daughter has one I made for her when she was quite young, and each of their three children also has one specially made for them<\/a>, but my son-in-law has been using one of those generic ones from a big box store. He finally told me a few weeks ago what he wanted on his stocking, and it’s anything but traditional. I’ll bet you can guess that he’s a huge fan of the NY Yankees. \ud83d\ude09 So this was today’s project, and he’ll have it in plenty of time for Christmas. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son-in-law has been “gently” hinting for a few years that he needed a new Christmas stocking. My daughter has one I made for her when she was quite young, and each of their three children also has one specially made for them, but my son-in-law has been using one of those generic ones from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"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":[4],"tags":[266],"class_list":{"0":"post-1403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-applique","8":"tag-christmas-stockings","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/benstocking.jpg?fit=387%2C518&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-mD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1560,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/more-stockings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1403,"position":0},"title":"More stockings","author":"Sandy","date":"February 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My goodness! 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