{"id":1241,"date":"2006-12-13T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:37:54","slug":"containers-for-one-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Containers for One Deep Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/PC120111-20copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/PC120111-20copy-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">christmas traditions<br \/>stashed away in boxes<br \/>trinkets of our love<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Read more container poems <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/onebreathpoetry.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/container-poetry.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Each year, usually for our wedding anniversary, I can expect to receive a new crop of ornaments for the tree. We favor glass ornaments of all shapes and sizes; the quirkier and more unusual the better. Each is unwrapped from its tissue paper and carefully placed on the tree where it shines briefly before being packed away again in the attic. My husband takes the tree down and puts it away. Left to my own schedule it would still be standing at Easter; I find that job to be too depressing on any but the brightest of Spring days. I love the distinctive glow the tree lends to the house at this season and hate to see it go.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">We live with the boxes spread around the living room for a week or so, and decorate the tree a little at a time, beginning with the largest or most treasured ornaments and finally placing the plain colored balls at the last to fill the empty spaces. I&#8217;m often surprised to find a particularly beautiful one that I don&#8217;t remember buying or being given.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>christmas traditionsstashed away in boxestrinkets of our loveRead more container poems here. Each year, usually for our wedding anniversary, I can expect to receive a new crop of ornaments for the tree. We favor glass ornaments of all shapes and sizes; the quirkier and more unusual the better. Each is unwrapped from its tissue paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Containers for One Deep Breath<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}