{"id":72802,"date":"2019-12-12T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72802"},"modified":"2019-12-12T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T12:20:17","slug":"wake-me-up-when-december-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72802","title":{"rendered":"Wake Me Up When December Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I hate December. It&#8217;s cold. It&#8217;s dark. And all my year-end bills come due. Annual attorney recertification, vacation condo maintenance fee, hangar rent, Christmas bills plus all the usual expenses. It&#8217;s that wallop at the end of the year that annoys me. I hate to see money going out of the checkbook, it should be coming in. Makes me what to cut back,\u00a0 spend less, live poor.\u00a0<br>&#8220;Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.&#8221;<br>I know exactly how he felt.<br>Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I make a concerted point of enjoying the whole holiday season &#8211; which has made me, oddly enough, enjoy the season.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I get it.  I really do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate December. It&#8217;s cold. It&#8217;s dark. And all my year-end bills come due. Annual attorney recertification, vacation condo maintenance fee, hangar rent, Christmas bills plus all the usual expenses. It&#8217;s that wallop at the end of the year that annoys me. I hate to see money going out of the checkbook, it should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-midwest","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72803,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802\/revisions\/72803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}