{"id":16763,"date":"2008-12-25T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16763"},"modified":"2014-12-10T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:01:28","slug":"wishing-you-a-creepy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/25\/wishing-you-a-creepy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing you a <i>Creepy<\/i> Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like Christmas.  I really do.  <\/p>\n<p>I love going out at night and driving around looking at lights, I lust after fruitcake, and I can&#8217;t watch <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/i> without sobbing like a baby.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it that as I searched for Christmas imagery to illustrate the day, the only pieces of art which spoke to me show poor Santa either threatened &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creepy86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creepy86-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Creepy86\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creepy86-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creepy86.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or dead?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LoboChristmasSpecial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LoboChristmasSpecial-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"LoboChristmasSpecial\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LoboChristmasSpecial-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LoboChristmasSpecial-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LoboChristmasSpecial.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not entirely sure &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry!  Even though it looks like my head may be saying &#8220;Bah Humbug!&#8221;&#151;my heart says &#8220;Merry Christmas!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Christmas. I really do. I love going out at night and driving around looking at lights, I lust after fruitcake, and I can&#8217;t watch It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life without sobbing like a baby. So why is it that as I searched for Christmas imagery to illustrate the day, the only pieces of art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-16763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}