{"id":8788,"date":"2025-12-26T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:01:22","slug":"merry-belated-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/merry-belated-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry (Belated) Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SO! Not a lot of blogging recently, because I&#8217;ve been focused on spending time with friends and family (or cleaning the house in preparation for spending time with friends and family) and, beyond that, I have a scientific paper due the fifteenth, PLUS I&#8217;m continuing to work on LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT and am behind on my wordcount (I never seem to get a Nano-like challenge done in one of the non-Nano months, but, hey, there&#8217;s a first time for everything, and I&#8217;m not THAT far behind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles-521x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8791\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles-521x800.png 521w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles-260x400.png 260w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles-768x1180.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles-640x983.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/treezles.png 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So! In lieu of a long blog post, enjoy this festive tree, which I had set up elsewhere in the house as a permanent accent slash night light years ago, but which my wife snuck up to our bedroom closet and loaded with gifts while I slept in the night &#8230; because, while she&#8217;s not into Christmas, she knows I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-600x798.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8790\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-600x798.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-300x400.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-768x1021.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-1155x1536.png 1155w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts-640x851.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prezernts.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s celebrate joyfully to thank God for Jesus, or as they say in the secular world &#8230; Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: Our little Charlie Brown tree, and my wife with a surprise present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO! Not a lot of blogging recently, because I&#8217;ve been focused on spending time with friends and family (or cleaning the house in preparation for spending time with friends and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,195],"tags":[334,12,5],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-religion","tag-christmas","tag-this-guy-called-jesus","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}