{"id":131784,"date":"2016-10-13T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/tisnt-the-season-dammit.html"},"modified":"2016-10-13T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T00:25:18","slug":"tisnt-the-season-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/tisnt-the-season-dammit.html","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Tisn&#039;t the Season, dammit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really? Christmas catalogs in the mail? In early October? <i>Really?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Okay, if I got a 1961 Christmas Catalog from Radio Shack in the mail, I&#39;d be intrigued. But everything that started arriving this week is from 2016 and far less interesting.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6341109982029080465\/6341109983590254386'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_qRNq4681Og\/WAAl7vWUhzI\/AAAAAAAEJB4\/uK0ZWXrRDwYW89Px3_1a7ioC9zSnhYT9gCJoC\/1961%252BRadio%252BShack%252BCatalog%252B01%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/anxVicTHwUA'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? Christmas catalogs in the mail? In early October? Really? (Okay, if I got a 1961 Christmas Catalog from Radio Shack in the mail, I&#39;d be intrigued. But everything that started arriving this week is from 2016 and far less interesting.) \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/19612BRadio2BShack2BCatalog2B015B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137491,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/christmas-cards.html","url_meta":{"origin":131784,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Cards","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Dec-18 1:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas Cards are both a personal bane (taking up the chunk of time they do) and a personal joy (a chance to reach out to people -- friends and family -- who aren't social media correspondents and the like). 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