{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-27T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T12:25:57","slug":"red-tape-and-holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2007\/09\/27\/red-tape-and-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Tape and Holly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2007\/09\/1242_23878.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2007\/09\/1242_23878.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan, four months old\" width=\"150\" title=\"Jonathan, four months old\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail-->We went to Manila last week&nbsp;for our final step toward obtaining Jonathan&#8217;s passport.&nbsp; We had to make a personal appearance at the U.S. Embassy, with Jonathan.&nbsp; Things went smoothly during our appointment, and they said&nbsp;his passport would get to us in a couple weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2007\/09\/1242_23877.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2007\/09\/1242_23877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail-->While we were there, we did our shopping for Abigail&#8217;s birthday and for Christmas.&nbsp; It may seem difficult to get in the Christmas mood in the heat of the Philippines, especially when you were raised with snow!&nbsp; However, though it doesn&#8217;t feel like Christmas, it sounds like it in all the malls.&nbsp; The Christmas season is celebrated during the &#8216;ber&#8217; months, which means Christmas music begins playing, and decorations are displayed, beginning in September.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like Christmas?  It may not look like Christmas, as far as the weather here in the Philippines, but it sounds like Christmas in all the malls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}