{"id":1169,"date":"2009-12-24T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T04:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2014-11-28T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:46:04","slug":"christmas-lights-like-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights, like crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/xmaslights1.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>This is a house around the corner from ours. These people take Christmas lights to a crazy extreme. The past few weeks, whenever I&#8217;m driving home in the dark, I&#8217;m so dazzled by these lights I almost miss the turn. A crazy and very festive show of holiday spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is from a few other angles:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/xmaslights2.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/xmaslights3.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Geoff did his best taking these pictures without a tripod. For the top one he was able to balance the camera on a fence. For the bottom two, he had to set it down on the sidewalk, which was slightly comical when a dog ran out from a neighboring house and started sniffing him. The dog was sweet and very friendly, but still. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another house down the street with lights that are almost as crazy, but it was cold out and we didn&#8217;t feel like walking that far. Take my word for it. I never saw displays like this when we were living in San Francisco. Now that we&#8217;re in the suburbs&#8230; well, I guess that&#8217;s how they do Christmas around here. Ho ho ho, and all that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a house around the corner from ours. These people take Christmas lights to a crazy extreme. The past few weeks, whenever I&#8217;m driving home in the dark, I&#8217;m so dazzled by these lights I almost miss the turn. A crazy and very festive show of holiday spirit. Here it is from a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-christmas","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}