{"id":3906,"date":"2018-01-02T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:50:14","slug":"a-merry-little-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/a-merry-little-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Merry Little Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a most excellent Xmas vacation that included lots of visiting, hosting, gifts, food and entertaining. Good to end the year on a healthy and prosperous note.<\/p>\n<p>On the Friday before xmas my office closed early. We went out for Mexican food and then went to see the the new Star Wars movie. Both very good. Next day I had jazz, then Jeannie\u2019s big family Xmas party out on Long Island. Lizzy had jello shots. I played some pool. On Xmas Eve we went out for sushi, our take on the Italian seven fishes tradition. On xmas day Mary\u2019s came over along with Jeannie\u2019s folks. On boxing day we headed up to Buffalo to see my parents. The next day Martin\u2019s arrived, and that evening we visiting Larry and Jackie and went out to a great dinner at a place in Hamburg. Thursday morning Martin and I planned out the next round of work for the Jukebox, and we drove home later that day. Friday Denis and Sara and their kids came over for a visit. Saturday was jazz again, and then Jay came over the help me mix my record. Finally on New Year\u2019s Eve Nick\u2019s came over, and some of Lizzy\u2019s friends too. Whew! All of it was very nice and a much needed break.<\/p>\n<p>In between we watched most of the original Star Wars trilogy, I went up in weight on my workout, worked on mixing my record, updating my web site, and some new origami ideas, read most of Magnus Chase, and hung around and relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>Well it\u2019s back to work again. It\u2019s been bitter cold the last couple weeks, with no end in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a most excellent Xmas vacation that included lots of visiting, hosting, gifts, food and entertaining. Good to end the year on a healthy and prosperous note. On the Friday before xmas my office closed early. We went out for Mexican food and then went to see the the new Star Wars movie. Both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/a-merry-little-xmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Merry Little Xmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}