{"id":46,"date":"2008-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-17T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:23:49","slug":"are-you-ready-for-christmas-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2008\/11\/17\/are-you-ready-for-christmas-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for Christmas yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2008\/11\/1242_48155.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2008\/11\/1242_48155.jpg\" alt=\"Students start decorating their schools for Christmas starting the first week of November.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Have you decorated for Christmas yet?&nbsp; In the Philippines, Christmas decorating begins in September, and it is celebrated throughout the &lsquo;ber&rsquo; months (September, October, November, &amp; December).&nbsp; If you are like us, the temptation is sometimes strong to begin decorating early.&nbsp;But each year, we delay decorating until after Abigail&rsquo;s birthday (which is right after Thanksgiving).&nbsp; Having Christmas music playing in the stores in September comes in handy for some things though.&nbsp; For example, there are some things that we have found it necessary to do early, like make and mail our Christmas cards.&nbsp; We have already mailed our Christmas cards because this is the last time we plan to be in town again before Christmas.&nbsp; Take note though: even though Christmas is celebrated during the &lsquo;ber&rsquo; months, it is certainly not the &lsquo;brrr&rsquo; months.&nbsp; We maintain our regular temperature in the 80s &amp; 90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do you start decorating for Christmas?<\/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-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}