{"id":311,"date":"2007-11-28T17:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-11-28T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:56:30","slug":"the-ritual-completed-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"The ritual completed for another year…"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there’s a set time to take down the Christmas tree, there doesn’t seem to be one for setting one up.\u00a0 Except if you’re in retail, in which case the 1st of October seems about right, apparently.\u00a0 But as we’ll be a bit busy the first weekend of December, and the second one seems almost a bit late, we decided it had to go up last weekend.<\/p>\n

Of course that could have just been because Bec wanted to have a glass of champagne, as it is apparently somehow an integral part of the ritual!\u00a0 Which of course you remember from reading last year’s entry on this topic<\/a>.\u00a0 Don’t you?\u00a0 You did read it, didn’t you?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, up it went.\u00a0 This year we both decided that there weren’t enough lights on it, and as I didn’t get around to sneaking some more on last year we had to go and get some more the next day to lighten things up a bit.\u00a0 Looks about right now, I think.<\/p>\n

Not the best photo of it, but I’ll avoid putting a video up of it in it’s full glory. There’s enough crap video on the net already.<\/p>\n

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Now we just have to remember to take it down at the right time…\u00a0 Oh, and get a few presents to put under it to, I guess.\u00a0 That’s the hard bit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While there’s a set time to take down the Christmas tree, there doesn’t seem to be one for setting one up.\u00a0 Except if you’re in retail, in which case the 1st of October seems about right, apparently.\u00a0 But as we’ll be a bit busy the first weekend of December, and the second one seems almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}