{"id":1781,"date":"2024-12-23T04:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2024-12-29T04:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:18:55","slug":"the-day-before-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/the-day-before-the-night-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The day before, the night before Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I miss my mom, every year she would call me and play an old album with the song &#8220;The day before, the night before Christmas&#8230;&#8221; one of my childhood favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could count on that being the first call of my day, every, single, year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is wonderful the memories I have of my mom, and how she made the holidays magical.  It was the best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a conversation with her, talked a bit and wished her a Merry Christmas today, it was sad but it did feel good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking around her gravesite she does not get any visitors, nothing had changed since the last time we were there and planted flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie&#8217;s Kokopeli was still there but looked like it got hit with a mower or weed eater.  I fixed it back up, straightened it all back and put it back in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cleaned up the site a bit, left her a poinsettia, her favorite Christmas flower and left with tears in our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love you Mom, Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss my mom, every year she would call me and play an old album with the song &#8220;The day before, the night before Christmas&#8230;&#8221; one of my childhood favorites. I could count on that being the first call of my day, every, single, year. I loved it. It is wonderful the memories I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}