{"id":452,"date":"2003-12-24T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T08:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=452"},"modified":"2003-12-24T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T08:34:32","slug":"papas-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/papas-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa&#8217;s Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>?Father,? the children said.<BR><BR><br \/>\nThere was no answer. He?s there, all right, they thought.<BR><BR><br \/>\n?Father,? they said, and banged on their beds.<BR><BR><br \/>\n?What do you want?? I asked.<BR><BR><br \/>\n?We have visions of sugarplums,? the children said.<BR><BR><br \/>\n?Go to sleep,? said mamma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorker.com\/archive\/content\/?031222fr_archive01\">James Thurber channeling Ernest Hemingway writing &#8220;The Night Before Christmas&#8221;  <\/a>for the New Yorker, 1928.<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerblog.blogspot.com\/\">Danger Blog!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maudnewton.com\/blog\/index.php?m=200312#1951\">Maud<\/a> for trotting out this wonderful gem:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?Father,? the children said. There was no answer. He?s there, all right, they thought. ?Father,? they said, and banged on their beds. ?What do you want?? I asked. ?We have visions of sugarplums,? the children said. ?Go to sleep,? said&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/papas-christmas-eve\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}