{"id":3814,"date":"2011-12-27T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:50:02","slug":"christmas-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/12\/27\/christmas-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick recap of Christmas 2011:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convinced that there was a chink in the many &#8220;no trespassing&#8221; signs that kept the white pelicans of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwb.org\/\">Kern Water Bank<\/a> too far away to be photographed I stopped during the drive home and doggedly probed the area for weaknesses.  After much searching a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainlaw.com\/the-kern-river-bike-path.html\">bike path along the Kern River<\/a> seemed like the only legal entry option &#8211; sadly I didn&#8217;t have a bike, and a 2.5 mile hike yielded many birds but no pelicans.  On a positive note, during the five mile round-trip I did discover that my knee is now recovered enough to hike up to four miles without generating stabbing pains.<\/li>\n<li>Christmas at the Holliday home tends to involve waffles, presents, and competition.  While the first two went mostly according to tradition, this year&#8217;s competitions were a disaster for the eldest son, with losses across the board &#8211; it was a humiliating display, and Ma and Pa will now have to refer to Aaron as &#8220;the athletic, intelligent child&#8221;.  Adding insult to injury, several games of Big Buck Hunter were &#8220;competitions&#8221; in the same way that Little Big Horn was a &#8220;battle&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>During a break in competition Ma and Pa put together another tremendous Christmas dinner; the delicious food and my inability to run may have dire waistline consequences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick recap of Christmas 2011: Convinced that there was a chink in the many &#8220;no trespassing&#8221; signs that kept the white pelicans of the Kern Water Bank too far away to be photographed I stopped during the drive home and doggedly probed the area for weaknesses. After much searching a bike path along the Kern &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/12\/27\/christmas-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas 2011&#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":[1],"tags":[58,34,29],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11063,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}