{"id":420,"date":"2006-12-25T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=610"},"modified":"2006-12-25T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T20:59:51","slug":"green-christmas-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Green Christmas.  Boo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are celebrating a green Christmas this year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the first I&#8217;ve experienced in Ottawa (after living here for 24 or so years), and I have to admit&#8230;it blows.\u00a0 What was supposed to be my second annual snowman hunt turned out to be an afternoon watching Dan play Xbox.\u00a0 Super lame.\u00a0 The lack of snowmen to hunt AND the lame Xbox game.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t\u00a0they come out with more child\/wife friendly games to amuse me?\u00a0 I admit they come close with the one where the squirrel farts and burps, but it&#8217;s just not enough.<\/p>\n<p>The view in front of the house:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0081sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0081sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image613\" height=\"85\" alt=\"dsc_0081sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0081sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The funniest Christmas story of the year (so far):\u00a0 Jenny&#8217;s new little pup Benny\u00a0wasn&#8217;t let outside to pee\u00a0before &#8216;present opening time&#8217; and since he&#8217;s\u00a0teeny and had to go&#8230;he chose to go <strong>on<\/strong> the presents.\u00a0 Puppies rock.\u00a0 That would have been hilarious to see.<\/p>\n<p>Humph, on the other hand, was given his stocking goodies before we opened any of our\u00a0presents.\u00a0\u00a0After that\u00a0he associated gift opening with getting more stuff to chew\/eat and he started sticking his nose in any and all gift bags and boxes on the floor, previously opened or not.<\/p>\n<p>And then he passed out.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0072sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0072sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0072sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0072sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0073sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0073sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image614\" style=\"height: 179px\" height=\"179\" alt=\"dsc_0073sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0073sm.jpg\" width=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are celebrating a green Christmas this year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the first I&#8217;ve experienced in Ottawa (after living here for 24 or so years), and I have to admit&#8230;it blows.\u00a0 What was supposed to be my second annual snowman hunt turned out to be an afternoon watching Dan play Xbox.\u00a0 Super lame.\u00a0 The lack of snowmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[24,35,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}