{"id":2438,"date":"2009-12-26T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2009-12-26T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T13:44:31","slug":"sparkis-uncle-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/sparkis-uncle-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparki&#8217;s Uncle John&#8217;s Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>My dad&#8217;s elder brother John used to enthrall me with this story when I was a kid. At family gatherings, I used to sit on the floor by his chair (on the beer can side, not the cigarette side \u2013 he always had both going) and listen to him tell stories until I was told to go play with the other children.<br \/>\nAnyway, this is the story he told every Christmas when I was a little girl. I can\u2019t attest to how truthful it is \u2013 John being John \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/fonticulusfides.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/my-uncle-johns-christmas-story.html\">but it\u2019s a good story nonetheless&#8230;.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad&#8217;s elder brother John used to enthrall me with this story when I was a kid. At family gatherings, I used to sit on the floor by his chair (on the beer can side, not the cigarette side \u2013 he always had both going) and listen to him tell stories until I was told&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/sparkis-uncle-j\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sparki&#8217;s Uncle John&#8217;s Christmas Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}