{"id":6627,"date":"2010-12-25T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2011-12-24T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:51:25","slug":"christmas-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/12\/christmas-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl and I have a Christmas Tradition.  Early afternoon on Christmas Day we go for a long walk.  I always hope that I can be on snowshoes and this Christmas I was.  The deep snow from November had melted, then froze and earlier this week was topped with two fresh inches.  It was perfect.  We circumnavigated the property and the state land&#8230;in no hurry.  The freezing fog had fed the hoar frost so the woods appeared like a frozen swamp &#8211; icy tendrils hanging off branches and moss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6178.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6178.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the fog made the 24F temperature seem colder, we were both warm on our return so ended with some time on the front porch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6198.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6198.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sipped on fizzy apple cider and sat enjoying the quiet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6204.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec10\/ChristmasB6204.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Karl and I sat and watched, the sun came out, the fog lifted, the trees sparkled.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl and I have a Christmas Tradition. Early afternoon on Christmas Day we go for a long walk. I always hope that I can be on snowshoes and this Christmas I was. The deep snow from November had melted, then froze and earlier this week was topped with two fresh inches. It was perfect. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9535,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/9535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}