{"id":55058,"date":"2025-12-25T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=55058"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:51:46","slug":"made-it-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/made-it-to-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Made it to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the planning, prep and stress, we made it to Christmas. The dog loved his presents, the child less so &#8211; those that weren&#8217;t in cold hard cash were complained at. He&#8217;d already read &#8220;The art of War&#8221; and hated it, he didn&#8217;t like the cologne we thought he liked, and he was nonplussed with the print of the japanese street sign of jumping cats because he doesn&#8217;t do posters. Whatevs. He&#8217;s a tired teenager. It could have been worse. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55047\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248-452x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248-301x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248-301x400.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248-452x600.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-20251225-wa00123730128623037573248.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dinner was good &#8211; too much food as usual. Spatchcocked turkey, yorkie puds, stuffind balls, pigs in blankets, port-braised red cabbage, roasted and mashed spuds, and tons of veg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55049\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/made-it-to-christmas\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"675,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wp-17667391664691438563457174157624\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624-338x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624-225x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624-225x400.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624-338x600.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wp-17667391664691438563457174157624.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the planning, prep and stress, we made it to Christmas. The dog loved his presents, the child less so &#8211; those that weren&#8217;t in cold hard cash were complained at. He&#8217;d already read &#8220;The art of War&#8221; and hated it, he didn&#8217;t like the cologne we thought he liked, and he was nonplussed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/made-it-to-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Made it to Christmas&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[590,140,221],"class_list":["post-55058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chonk","tag-christmas","tag-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-ek2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058","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=55058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55060,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058\/revisions\/55060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}