{"id":14871,"date":"2016-12-25T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2016-12-26T19:52:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T19:52:05","slug":"mele-kalikimaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/mele-kalikimaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Mele Kalikimaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-25-at-10.11.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-25-at-10-11-52-am\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-25-at-10.11.52-AM.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-25-at-10.11.52-AM-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-25-at-10.11.52-AM-491x281.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n(Gift cards at the Front Page are splendid gifts!)<\/p>\n<p>Gentle readers,<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas morning my thoughts are thousands of miles away. I have a son who will rise on the Windward Shore of the island of O&#8217;ahu, and another who is involved in the intricate mystery of life with his newborne and his wife. I have never felt so solitary and yet directly connected with them all. <\/p>\n<p>My thought are with the other people I care about- some I love, others I would deploy to The Show with, and gladly. On this day, the very best to all!<\/p>\n<p>I could dredge up some memories- there are plenty of them- but the new ones are quite suitable. There is a small posse of the Usual Suspects who are planning an adventure downtown at the fabled Round Robin Bar- more on that as it happens!<\/p>\n<p>It seems appropriate to harness one memory this morning, one from the lovely islands that have such a place in the life of my scattered family.<\/p>\n<p>You know- you hear Bing Crosby&#8217;s version this time of year a lot: Mele Kalikimaka! &#8220;It&#8217;s the island way to say Merry Christmas!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And for all of us in this unsettled and unsettling world, hau&#8217;oli makahiki hou!<\/p>\n<p>Vic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Gift cards at the Front Page are splendid gifts!) Gentle readers, This Christmas morning my thoughts are thousands of miles away. I have a son who will rise on the Windward Shore of the island of O&#8217;ahu, and another who is involved in the intricate mystery of life with his newborne and his wife. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14874,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}