{"id":659,"date":"2005-12-23T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=659"},"modified":"2005-12-23T07:20:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T12:20:55","slug":"on-festivus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"On Festivus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 23rd, 2nd Afteryule, is also the date on which we celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdnews.com\/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=\/GlobalTemplates\/Details.cfm&#038;StoryID=37466&#038;Section=MAX\">Festivus<\/a>, the holiday for the rest of us. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Air your grievances!  Raise your pole!  Perform feats of strength!<\/p>\n<p>Why Festivus has caught on I couldn&#8217;t say.  Maybe everyone needs a sanity moment from the onrush of Christmas.  Or maybe, just maybe, to mangle a line from <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/i>, every time a Festivus Pole is raised Bill O&#8217;Reilly has a minor stroke. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 23rd, 2nd Afteryule, is also the date on which we celebrate Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us. \ud83d\ude42 Air your grievances! Raise your pole! Perform feats of strength! Why Festivus has caught on I couldn&#8217;t say. Maybe everyone needs a sanity moment from the onrush of Christmas. Or maybe, just maybe,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Festivus&#8221;<\/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":[114],"tags":[1036],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-festivus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}