{"id":89,"date":"2015-12-08T06:35:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T06:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-12-08T06:35:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T06:35:29","slug":"december-8th-whats-it-all-about-by-tsilvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"December 8th- What\u2019s It All About by TSiLvY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Sometimes it\u2019s just more evident than others. Drabble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas_Ornaments_Border_by_mickeyd6003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Christmas_Ornaments_Border_by_mickeyd6003.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas_Ornaments_Border_by_mickeyd600\" width=\"250\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll keep asking what&#8217;s this euphoric sentimentalism all about. I have an answer, but I can&#8217;t tell him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s him in front of me, hobbling slightly, using his crutch to straighten the Christmas Star on a tree he didn&#8217;t even want. It\u2019s that I won&#8217;t spend these holidays missing him. It\u2019s his guitar waiting, anticipating the evening.<\/p>\n<p>My gift for him was a horrible car; his gift for me was holding on, not letting that canyon draw us apart. There\u2019s no way I could ever even that up.<\/p>\n<p>He stares and knows what I\u2019m thinking. His smile is my Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/survivalend.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/survivalend.png\" alt=\"survivalend\" width=\"600\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/survivalend.png 600w, https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/survivalend-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Sometimes it\u2019s just more evident than others. Drabble. He&#8217;ll keep asking what&#8217;s this euphoric sentimentalism all about. I have an answer, but I can&#8217;t tell him. It\u2019s him in front of me, hobbling slightly, using his crutch to straighten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fic","category-gen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2015\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}