{"id":3220,"date":"2013-12-21T21:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"merry-christmas-and-best-wishes-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-and-best-wishes-for-the-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me also knows that I&#8217;m not a big fan of snow. &nbsp;But there it was, snow on our Windmill Palm this week. &nbsp;Thankfully, it&#8217;s one of the tougher palm trees and can usually make it through our winters if they don&#8217;t get too severe. &nbsp;I blame it all on those folks who want and wish for a White Christmas. &nbsp;As you can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/creating-another-beach-pottery-bird-bath-and-theres-a-movie-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">birdbath we finished in the summer<\/a> is well frozen over. &nbsp;We love a green rainy Christmas ourselves. &nbsp;A walk on the beach is what we look forward to on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m busy getting ready for the big day and baking a lot. &nbsp;If you are interested in some ideas for avoiding the Mall this year and finding greener, less expensive presents, I have posted a few of my ideas on that subject <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/helen\u2019s-10-recycled-earth-friendly-pocket-book-friendly-and-guilt-free-gift-giving-ideas-or-how-to-avoid-\u201cthe-mall\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>Will and I would like to share our little wish for the holidays to anyone reading my little blog. &nbsp;I&#8217;m looking forward to the New year and lots of new posts. &nbsp;And I&#8217;d also like to add many, many thanks to all those who have left comments and pinned from this blog last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-xmas-card1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3221 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-xmas-card1.jpg\" alt=\"2013-xmas-card1\" width=\"624\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-xmas-card1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-xmas-card1-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me also knows that I&#8217;m not a big fan of snow. &nbsp;But there it was, snow on our Windmill Palm this week. &nbsp;Thankfully, it&#8217;s one of the tougher palm trees and can usually make it through our winters if they don&#8217;t get too severe. &nbsp;I blame it all on those folks who <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-and-best-wishes-for-the-new-year\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,10,1],"tags":[883,1182,884],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-garden","category-musings","tag-merry-christmas","tag-mosaic-bird-bath-in-winter","tag-windmill-palm-under-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}