{"id":252,"date":"2004-12-13T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/13\/let_the_festivities_begin.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:24:03","slug":"let_the_festivities_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/13\/let_the_festivities_begin.html","title":{"rendered":"Let the Festivities Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday party season began in earnest this weekend, with a 30th birthday bash for Michael and a family get-together to show off Aimee&#8217;s home and cooking skills to the rest of the family.  In between, we sought out and constructed a nice little gingerbread house, complete with non-pareil chimney, of which I am quite a little proud.<BR><BR>Friday night, Michael joined the ranks of those breaking new and scary ground, though he was still happy to rock out in his fiancee&#8217;s bat mitvah t-shirt, ? la <a title=\":: Bar Mitzvah Disco ::\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barmitzvahdisco.com\/\">Bar Mitzvah Disco<\/a>.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michael_ali.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/13\/michael_ali.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>I add detail to the roof as the snow\/reinforcement dries around the Seussian chimney.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ginger_progress.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/13\/ginger_progress.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>Note the tiny <a title=\"Welcome to Necco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necco.com\/\">Necco<\/a> gravestone in the back.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ginger_grave.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/13\/ginger_grave.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>The finished product, ready for consumption, or at least admiration.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ginger_above.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/13\/ginger_above.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>And finally, Jack applauds his ability to kiss his sister.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jack_clap.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/13\/jack_clap.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday party season began in earnest this weekend, with a 30th birthday bash for Michael and a family get-together to show off Aimee&#8217;s home and cooking skills to the rest of the family. In between, we sought out and constructed a nice little gingerbread house, complete with non-pareil chimney, of which I am quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}