{"id":876,"date":"2012-12-03T03:18:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=876"},"modified":"2012-12-03T03:18:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:18:34","slug":"christmas-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day:<\/p>\n

When people ask me what I want for Christmas, I tell them that my favorite color is diamonds. \u00a0So far, that has not been an effective answer. \u00a0No diamonds. \u00a0I am always interested in hearing what people would like for gifts. \u00a0The answers at times are surprising!<\/p>\n

This past year, my daughter moved into a new house. \u00a0This home has 14′ ceilings which means, huge walls. \u00a0What in the world do you put on a 14′ wall? \u00a0Well, she had an answer to that question~and it turned out to be an excellent answer.<\/p>\n

My daughter asked for a 13′ x 9′ National Geographic world map. \u00a0You know, the kind that looks like a flattened out globe. \u00a0Colorful blue oceans, the countries outlined by contrasting colors and the polar ice caps showing white. \u00a0Very pretty and very big! \u00a0That is what she wanted for Christmas. And we found it~on Amazon!<\/p>\n

So, today was the “Let’s put the map up on the wall!” day. \u00a0It took four people and a 10′ ladder to put that thing up. \u00a0We made our own plumb bob with thread and a tootsie pop (for the weight at the end of the thread). \u00a0We had very small tacks to keep the map in place. \u00a0And we had two perfectionist guys working the ladder, hammer and nails. \u00a0It looks great! \u00a0It is centered perfect on the wall! \u00a0It is the exact right height about the sofa. \u00a0It is the exact right size for that huge wall. \u00a0Success!!!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day: When people ask me what I want for Christmas, I tell them that my favorite color is diamonds. \u00a0So far, that has not been an effective answer. \u00a0No diamonds. \u00a0I am always interested in hearing what people would like for gifts. \u00a0The answers at times are surprising! This past year, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}