{"id":113,"date":"2004-12-22T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T06:04:08","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Let It Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is almost Christmas Eve.  This year it&#8217;s difficult to get into a festive mood. The one company that used to distribute eggnog off base discontinued the product years ago. Mom Nature  isn&#8217;t cooperating.  The North winds haven&#8217;t begun to kick in.  During the daytime,  we&#8217;re still running the air conditioner as we drive around the island.  Many local residents feel no necessity to wear more than short-sleeved t-shirts. Winter sweaters, ear muffs, and gloves are nowhere to be found.  People on the island in general,  just don&#8217;t seem to be in the  usual jolly frame of mind.  What we could use is a good old-fashioned Christmas miracle of a white Christmas.  But since this is a subtropic island, there&#8217;s no chance of that ever happening.  I hope everyone has a very safe and happy holiday season anyway.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is almost Christmas Eve. This year it&#8217;s difficult to get into a festive mood. The one company that used to distribute eggnog off base discontinued the product years ago. Mom Nature isn&#8217;t cooperating. The North winds haven&#8217;t begun to kick in. During the daytime, we&#8217;re still running the air conditioner as we drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-notes-2004","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}