{"id":38995,"date":"2013-12-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38995"},"modified":"2013-12-25T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:08:06","slug":"merry-christmas-dickweeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38995","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, dickweeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=38996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38996\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/To-those-who-wear...-300x189.jpg?resize=300%2C189\" alt=\"To those who wear...\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/To-those-who-wear....jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/To-those-who-wear....jpg?resize=500%2C316&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/To-those-who-wear....jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank those of you who thought of us by sending cards, donating and sending cigars, coins and everything else as well as the mounds of email. I never know how many fans we have until the lurkers send us the seasons&#8217; greetings&#8230;and tips. I get up in the morning and wonder WTF I&#8217;m going to write about today and there are always enough tips for me get into the mood to think for myself. <\/p>\n<p>You are this blog, all of you. Without you, I would have quit long ago &#8211; and your comments bring in the traffic. I&#8217;d drink to each of you, but six thousand shots of rum might be a bit too much. So I&#8217;ll drink just one all of you.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s your Christmas present; an open thread while I spend the day with my grandson and his Mom.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=39009\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Velo-300x265.jpg?resize=300%2C265\" alt=\"Velo\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Velo.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Velo.jpg?resize=376%2C333&amp;ssl=1 376w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Velo.jpg?w=525&amp;ssl=1 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank those of you who thought of us by sending cards, donating and sending cigars, coins and everything else as well as the mounds of email. I never know how many fans we have until the lurkers send us the seasons&#8217; greetings&#8230;and tips. I get up in the morning and wonder WTF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-a8X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}