{"id":3368,"date":"2008-12-22T22:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2008-12-22T22:48:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T05:48:32","slug":"egg-nog-wont-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/egg-nog-wont-cut-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg nog won&#8217;t cut it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa,<\/p>\n<p>When you visit us this year, could you bring something to help me gain the patience I need to deal with my kids non-stop for the next two weeks?\u00c2\u00a0 I admit I&#8217;ve made some dumb moves (agreeing to teach last minute, for one) that have me thinking about all the other things I&#8217;m suppose to be doing&#8230; which means that I&#8217;m frustrated and not focused on being a Mom right now.\u00c2\u00a0 With Paul still working his 18 jobs around the clock and the house in complete chaos, I&#8217;m just not in a good place, you know?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Could you bring something to chill that out a little bit?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m totally cool with pharmaceuticals, if that&#8217;s the way you want to go.<\/p>\n<p>Just looking for that Christmas high,<\/p>\n<p>me<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>This post is a <a href=\"http:\/\/paintedmaypole.blogspot.com\">Monday Mission<\/a>.  This week&#8217;s Mission is to write a post in the style of a letter to Santa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa, When you visit us this year, could you bring something to help me gain the patience I need to deal with my kids non-stop for the next two weeks?\u00c2\u00a0 I admit I&#8217;ve made some dumb moves (agreeing to teach last minute, for one) that have me thinking about all the other things I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[137,127,141,138,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}