{"id":3964,"date":"2021-12-27T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.wpengine.com\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2021-12-26T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:24:42","slug":"the-magic-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that magical time of year when time bends in unusual ways.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not talking about the short days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking the complete and utter lack of meaning to days of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Especially this year with Christmas Day being on a Saturday many folks have longer weekends and those extra days off are confusing the heck out of everyone.\u00a0 No lie- at a recent family gathering we spend more than 2 seconds trying to figure out if it was Friday or Saturday (turns out it was Friday, but in our defense it was 10pm when we had this discussion).\u00a0 I also had a conversation with my husband about when I go back to work &#8211; he thought I had Monday the 27th off- I don&#8217;t \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, this is part of what I love about the holidays.\u00a0 I love the end of December when it feels like every day has something special right around the corner.\u00a0 I love the leftovers, I love the sharing of family photos, even the cheesy ones in matching PJs.\u00a0 I love the casual days at work.\u00a0 I love feeling that Christmas magic for a few more days.\u00a0 And I encourage you to do the same!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that magical time of year when time bends in unusual ways.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not talking about the short days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking the complete and utter lack of meaning to days of the week. Especially this year with Christmas Day being on a Saturday many folks have longer weekends and those extra days off are confusing the heck out of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=3964\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects","category-its-all-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/qtq80-UKUaTM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}