{"id":3198,"date":"2012-12-27T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2012-12-27T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:15:11","slug":"beamy-christmas-and-snow-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"Beamy Christmas and Snow Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another yuletide rushing by, accompanied by the usual flurry and sprinkling of magic with a <em>soupcon<\/em> of drama, as Nana Beston went into the hospital for breathing difficulties.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Breathe.\u00a0 Celebrate.\u00a0 Highlighted among the traditional Christmas Eve carol sling-a-long was Molly Beston performing 2 &#8220;original&#8221; songs about the spirit of Christmas being about sharing and caring and spending time with family.\u00a0 From the mouth of babes!\u00a0 Christmas Day dawned snowy and Ben went for a pre-gift unwrapping run and then onto Greg and Darcy Beston&#8217;s for Christmas brunch.\u00a0 Got to meet Tanner O&#8217;Leary, Darcy&#8217;s sister&#8217;s days old baby.\u00a0 Now Beamy is in Maine, enjoying snow, snow, snow!\u00a0 Finally!\u00a0 A winter worth writing about.\u00a0 Hopefully it will last.\u00a0 We plan to get out as much as possible in the next few days, snowshoeing and exploring new woods and trails.\u00a0 And if we are so lucky, next weekend will break into my unopened XC skis, which have been languishing in the garage since last nonwinter.\u00a0 We are planning our usual lobster and champagne Christmas Eve, maybe stretching bedtime until midnight.\u00a0 Pre New Year&#8217;s dinner in Portland, ME at 555&#8230;should I go for the truffled lobster mac and cheese, heaven in each bite&#8230;or something different.\u00a0 Predictably delicious or be daring?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, if that could be my life&#8217;s motto?<\/p>\n<p>Merry, merry, jingle, jingle, and Happy, Happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another yuletide rushing by, accompanied by the usual flurry and sprinkling of magic with a soupcon of drama, as Nana Beston went into the hospital for breathing difficulties.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Breathe.\u00a0 Celebrate.\u00a0 Highlighted among the traditional Christmas Eve carol sling-a-long was Molly Beston performing 2 &#8220;original&#8221; songs about the spirit of Christmas being about sharing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}