{"id":143,"date":"2004-12-07T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-12-07T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:23:18","slug":"christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/12\/07\/christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/2004.12.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-976\" title=\"2004.12.07\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/2004.12.07-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Having lived like vampires for the past weeks with Melody on OB nights, we finally found the energy to brave the daylight this past Sunday and head out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\">Target<\/a>. We walked in planning only to get some plastic bins for her apartment, but came out carrying a 4.5ft Christmas tree! Granted it&#8217;s not a live tree, but nothing beats the convenience of having mini lights already sewn into the tree itself! I know it&#8217;s pathetic, but this is already a huge step up from never having ANY holiday decoration (so there!). We also nabbed a small selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkerbrothers.com\">Parker Brothers&#8217;<\/a> &#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; edition board games including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/monopoly\/\">Monopoly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/clue\/\">Clue<\/a>. They reportedly feature the original boards from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s&#8230; cause, you know, we sure missed those good ol&#8217; days! (cue theme song from &#8216;Happy Days&#8217;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lived like vampires for the past weeks with Melody on OB nights, we finally found the energy to brave the daylight this past Sunday and head out to Target. We walked in planning only to get some plastic bins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/12\/07\/christmas-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}