{"id":217044,"date":"2009-12-25T03:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2009-12-25T03:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:22:33","slug":"the-holiday-isn%e2%80%99t-over-until-the-rotund-gentleman-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217044","title":{"rendered":"The holiday isn\u2019t over until the rotund gentleman sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6218\" title=\"S. Claus, world-class gourmand and right jolly old elf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/img00067-803x1024.jpg\" alt=\"S. Claus, world-class gourmand and right jolly old elf\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"500\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merry Christmas, one and all.<\/strong> The rotund gentleman above may not be singing, but neither is he hawking a Coke, and we&#8217;ll take that as a sufficient act of saintliness. Regular Scatterers may recall that the jigsaw puzzle pictured was begun and completed over the Thanksgiving weekend by the Large Smelly Boys. We showed a close-up of the old gent&#8217;s face a while back and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/general\/scatter-happy-holidays-edition-puzzling-out-the-season\/\">promised that if you were good<\/a>, we&#8217;d show the whole puzzle. Well, our secret operatives inside The Google have been keeping a sharp eye on you and have reported that on the whole you&#8217;re a pretty sterling lot, so here&#8217;s the picture. Congratulations: Well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now quietly shut down your computers<\/strong> and join your friends and families for a cup of good cheer. Art Scatter World Headquarters is closed for the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas, one and all. The rotund gentleman above may not be singing, but neither is he hawking a Coke, and we&#8217;ll take that as a sufficient act of saintliness. Regular Scatterers may recall that the jigsaw puzzle pictured was begun and completed over the Thanksgiving weekend by the Large Smelly Boys. We showed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}