{"id":8941,"date":"2012-11-17T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2012-11-17T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T03:58:44","slug":"christmas-tree-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8941","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8188500242\/\"  title=\"2012-11-15 08.55.59.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8057\/8188500242_f2642a0483_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2012-11-15 08.55.59.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Christmas tree at the Manhattan Hilton Garden Inn gave a serious case of tree envy. It looked like it was easily over twenty feet and there wasn&#8217;t an unadorned inch.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8191074299\/\"  title=\"20121116_132242.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8338\/8191074299_a24d225653_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20121116_132242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tree that I&#8217;d been working on at home looked completely naked by comparison. I was tempted to go to Michael&#8217;s this morning to pick up some more ornaments. LOL. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8175963164\/\"  title=\"2012-11-11 12.17.42.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8487\/8175963164_7841185161_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2012-11-11 12.17.42.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Christmas decorations, Brian and I were inspired by this wine-themed Christmas tree that we saw at Von Maur today. We&#8217;re totally doing one next year!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8193794787\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8344\/8193794787_a6d77e6368_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas tree at the Manhattan Hilton Garden Inn gave a serious case of tree envy. It looked like it was easily over twenty feet and there wasn&#8217;t an unadorned inch. The tree that I&#8217;d been working on at home looked completely naked by comparison. I was tempted to go to Michael&#8217;s this morning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180,262,21],"tags":[235,1967,1895,2488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}