{"id":3562,"date":"2009-10-26T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2009-10-26T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:04:31","slug":"a-pictorial-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/a-pictorial-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A pictorial post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beastie was feeling a lot better yesterday (he&#8217;d been running a bit of a fever for the past few days) so we were able to go out and about for a while. <\/p>\n<p>We went to Scottsdales to start buying some Christmas decorations. Yes, I know it&#8217;s still early, but we&#8217;ve made a deal to not put anything up until Guy Fawkes has passed, and the tree can&#8217;t go up until December. Besides, it&#8217;s fun and the beastie seems to really enjoy garden centre Christmas displays.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to this.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/P251009_14.50.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/P251009_14.55.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Who the hell thought disembodied, shrunken Santa heads would make for good tree ornaments? I mean, wtf?!?? Just look at the eyes of the one in the first picture. Doesn&#8217;t it just say &#8220;please, kill me! I beseech you, let this torment end?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, there was this.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/P251009_14.58.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"206\" height=\"400\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Meerkats. I think that Aleksandr Orlov and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparethemeerkat.com\/\">Compare the Meerkats<\/a> is one of the best publicity campaigns I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. But what the hell do Meerkats have to do with Christmas???<\/p>\n<p>But there is a happy ending.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/P241009_14.46.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The beastie, he is getting very excited about Christmas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beastie was feeling a lot better yesterday (he&#8217;d been running a bit of a fever for the past few days) so we were able to go out and about for a while. We went to Scottsdales to start buying some Christmas decorations. Yes, I know it&#8217;s still early, but we&#8217;ve made a deal to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/a-pictorial-post-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A pictorial post&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,139,151],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-pictures","tag-slice-of-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}