My sister called. I couldn’t tell if she was laughing or if she was crying.<\/p>\n
There’s a Christmas tree stand shortage in Raleigh.<\/p>\n
She’d bought a tree at Lowe’s. She needed a stand. They were out.<\/p>\n
She went to Target. She went to Wal-Mart. She went to Kmart. She went to the grocery store. Someone, surely, had a Christmas tree stand.<\/p>\n
No. Everywhere she went, they were sold out.<\/p>\n
“Did you try Home Depot?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“There’s no Home Depot around here.” I was thinking of the one in Cary, which isn’t really that<\/i> far away. But it was far away for her.<\/p>\n
She’s taking the tree back. “I don’t know if they’ll even take the tree back! But I can’t put it up without water!”<\/p>\n
A shortage.<\/p>\n
Of Christmas tree stands.<\/p>\n
I’ve never heard of such a thing!<\/p>\n
A query letter has been written.<\/p>\n
It’s for an article that I would love<\/i> to write. In fact, I’ve already drafted some of it. I’ve even written the final line!<\/p>\n
And it’s one of those crazy, slightly madcap things that are so typical of me.<\/p>\n
Will I get to write the article? Don’t know. This is really, truly a long-shot. But then, really, what isn’t?<\/i><\/p>\n
The query letter is going in the mail on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My sister called. I couldn’t tell if she was laughing or if she was crying. There’s a Christmas tree stand shortage in Raleigh. She’d bought a tree at Lowe’s. She needed a stand. They were out. She went to Target. She went to Wal-Mart. She went to Kmart. She went to the grocery store. Someone,Continue reading “On a Shortage of Christmas Tree Stands”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64,4093,4102],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-christmas","tag-life","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}