{"id":137490,"date":"2018-12-25T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/a-very-merry-christmas-to-you.html"},"modified":"2019-01-01T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:54:50","slug":"a-very-merry-christmas-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/a-very-merry-christmas-to-you.html","title":{"rendered":"A Very Merry Christmas To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or whatever aspect of this time of year brings you and yours joy. And maybe gifts. But at least mid-winter calm and promise and perspective. I wish it all for you.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year we&#39;re celebrating in our home state of Colorado since I moved out here 24 years ago. With Margie&#39;s folks, and now my mom, in Colorado, it made more sense to hold the celebration here &#8212; thus leading to a whole new set of traditions being started.<\/p>\n<p>And James is home from school, and my brother John is visiting, so it&#39;s a wonderful family time. Christmas dinner at our place tonight, including some friends, which is also awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Good times. I hope yours are good as well.<\/p>\n<p>(And here&#39;s looking back <i>fifty<\/i> (eep!) years at Apollo 8 and the most famous picture taken of our planet.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.space.com\/42842-earthrise-apollo-8-photograph-50-years-later.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4PL5PkEI-GpT_f1_wU9vAp-c43bJObxjfYmYFDCGFs4rp0rtQzg5fjIb9IvvuntyamwFZPWSD4t76lmHw1CSSFehxpImU1mvHVenbIpHw3bNg5WSADbtCtW3HftS74QVsuS5t5jznMFhLnJkM0C76vtq47GnnEYJ7w9jJ7KpeeYFiT477nd37I9ibrN_1m3ee1w=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.space.com\/42842-earthrise-apollo-8-photograph-50-years-later.html'>Space.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/CwiqvhjJYtX'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or whatever aspect of this time of year brings you and yours joy. And maybe gifts. But at least mid-winter calm and promise and perspective. I wish it all for you. This is the first year we&#39;re celebrating in our home state of Colorado since I moved out here 24 years ago. With Margie&#39;s folks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/a-very-merry-christmas-to-you.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Very Merry Christmas To You&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,69,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-family","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/02\/new-years-eve.html","url_meta":{"origin":137490,"position":0},"title":"New Year&#039;s Eve","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jan-16 5:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So in all of the New Year's Eves I've lived in Denver (21 now), +Margie Kleerup and I have only ever been in town for the event once: in 1999, since we all had to go into our offices the next morning for Y2K check-ins. 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