{"id":405,"date":"2004-12-05T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T05:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=405"},"modified":"2006-10-03T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T02:16:04","slug":"the-holiday-season-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Season is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend with the girlfriend.  The lights are up, the tree is decorated, the shopping has begun, and the halls are freakin&#8217; decked.<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready?  Ornaments, wrapping, eggnog and all that?<\/p>\n<p>How &#8217;bout a little of that seasonal spirit of giving?  I&#8217;m talking more than spare change to the bell-ringers as you push your cart o&#8217; goodies out the store, though there&#8217;s nothing at all wrong with that.  Have you considered the very worthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofamerica.net\/\">Spirit of America<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Please help me and my fellow bloggers who have joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/\">Castle Argghhh!<\/a> in the Fighting Fusileers for Freedom as we try to answer the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofamerica.net\/cgi-bin\/soa\/challenge.pl?rm=view&#038;challenge_id=13\">Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritofamerica.net\/cgi-bin\/soa\/challenge.pl?rm=action&#038;challengegroup_id=45\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/images\/Fusileers_donate.jpg\"  alt=\"Join the Fighting Fusileers for Freedom!\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend with the girlfriend. The lights are up, the tree is decorated, the shopping has begun, and the halls are freakin&#8217; decked. Are you ready? Ornaments, wrapping, eggnog and all that? How &#8217;bout a little of that seasonal spirit of giving? I&#8217;m talking more than spare change to the bell-ringers as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-good-causes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}