{"id":973,"date":"2010-12-21T22:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=973"},"modified":"2010-12-21T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:06:01","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been lots of sweet and thoughtful holiday gifts arriving on my desk this week:\u00a0 a lovely bookmark with a quote from Thoreau; bath gel and lotion; enormous olives stuffed with feta cheese; a sweet little picture frame; heavenly homemade cookies; homemade marshmallows; a pretty mug with Ghiradelli cocoa mix in it; and all kinds of other awesome stuff.\u00a0 And then today a cute first grade girl shyly came up to me with a picture that she had made for me (she also inscribed it “To Abby – From Jane Doe,” which I cut off in my photo to preserve her anonymity).\u00a0 Click on photo to enlarge and to see all of the details, which do get cut off in the thumbnail:<\/p>\n

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She took a minute to tell me about her picture:\u00a0 Santa’s bookcase has books, and also Santa’s hat and an elf’s hat.\u00a0 Then there’s a roaring fire in the fireplace, and Santa’s desk and desk chair.\u00a0 I LOVE this picture!\u00a0 It’s on our fridge, in a spot of honor.\u00a0 I also LOVE that so many people have taken the time and energy to let me know that they care about me this week – it’s really, really nice to be reminded once a year that what you do matters, and that other people notice.\u00a0 Thanks, everyone, and right back at ‘cha!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been lots of sweet and thoughtful holiday gifts arriving on my desk this week:\u00a0 a lovely bookmark with a quote from Thoreau; bath gel and lotion; enormous olives stuffed with feta cheese; a sweet little picture frame; heavenly homemade cookies; homemade marshmallows; a pretty mug with Ghiradelli cocoa mix in it; and all … Continue reading Happy Holidays!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}