{"id":77985,"date":"2009-12-12T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/46600-christmas-poetry-challenge.html"},"modified":"2009-12-12T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:02:44","slug":"christmas-poetry-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/77985","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Poetry Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Do you have a favorite Christmas poem or story?  Here&#8217;s one of mine:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">It&#8217;s Christmas Time<br \/>\nby Bob Lazzar-Atwood.<\/p>\n<p>Put your problems on probation<br \/>\nRun your troubles off the track,<br \/>\nThrow your worries out the window<br \/>\nGet the monkeys off your back.<br \/>\nSilence all your inner critics<br \/>\nWith your conscience make amends,<br \/>\nAnd allow yourself some happiness<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Christmas time again! <br \/>\nCall a truce with those who bother you<br \/>\nLet all the fighting cease,<br \/>\nGive your differences a breather<br \/>\nAnd declare a time of peace,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let angry feelings taint<br \/>\nThe precious time you have to spend,<br \/>\nAnd allow yourself some happiness<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Christmas time again! <br \/>\nLike some cool refreshing water<br \/>\nOr a gentle summer breeze,<br \/>\nLike a fresh bouquet of flowers<br \/>\nOr the smell of autumn leaves,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a banquet for the spirit<br \/>\nFilled with family, food and friends,<br \/>\nSo allow yourself some happiness<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Christmas time again!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a favorite Christmas poem or story? Here&#8217;s one of mine: It&#8217;s Christmas Time by Bob Lazzar-Atwood. Put your problems on probation Run your troubles off the track, Throw your worries out the window Get the monkeys off your back. Silence all your inner critics With your conscience make amends, And allow yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77985","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}