{"id":38679,"date":"2020-01-07T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38679"},"modified":"2020-01-07T06:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:09:27","slug":"holidays-christmas-2019-nanaimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/holidays-christmas-2019-nanaimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays: Christmas 2019, Nanaimo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about the recent Christmas season: does it endure?<\/h2>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;ve all heard of the Twelve Days of Christmas, which run Dec 25 through Jan 5. Yet, can Christmas endure even past then?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast night, January 5th, I walked some blocks in Downtown Nanaimo. So many Christmas lights remained, and displays in stores, that it seemed like Christmas Eve.\n<\/p>\nThis evening, January 6th, returning from the grocery store, I appreciated the air was mild and soothing. Walking up the hill, I heard from behind me church chimes playing &#8220;It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I began to wonder if the Christmas season is surpassing its defined span. The intensity of Christmas doesn&#8217;t seem sustainable; yet, in the soft evening air, I wonder if, in some subtle form, it can sustain past the time frame one might imagine.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whychristmas.com\/customs\/12daysofchristmas.shtml\">whychristmas.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about the recent Christmas season: does it endure? We&#8217;ve all heard of the Twelve Days of Christmas, which run Dec 25 through Jan 5. Yet, can Christmas endure even past then? Last night, January 5th, I walked some blocks &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/holidays-christmas-2019-nanaimo\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays: Christmas 2019, Nanaimo<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38679"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38688,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38679\/revisions\/38688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}