{"id":3231,"date":"2008-12-25T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2008-12-25T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T20:54:33","slug":"christmas-eve-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew filled in for his mom this year. He did the tree, he bought tons of presents and he kept us all laughing with help from Kate and Emma.\u00c2\u00a0 This allowed\u00c2\u00a0 Peter and me to assume our usual, happy,\u00c2\u00a0 roles as Grinch One and Grinch Two.\u00c2\u00a0 Stocking stuffers have always been a big Canning-driven Christmas Eve event and most of us thought those stockings would be more empty than full, but Matthew made sure they were all filled to the brim. No overflow shopping bags this year, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay.\u00c2\u00a0 His mom would have been proud.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karen (for some reason not photographed), John, and Goose joined us this year, and after a fashion, Jen,\u00c2\u00a0 her girls and friends came by. Far more festive than Matt and I would have ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/eve_08\/album\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew filled in for his mom this year. He did the tree, he bought tons of presents and he kept us all laughing with help from Kate and Emma.\u00c2\u00a0 This allowed\u00c2\u00a0 Peter and me to assume our usual, happy,\u00c2\u00a0 roles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-2008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}