{"id":18,"date":"2008-12-01T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/christmas-tree-mishap.html"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T17:06:28","slug":"christmas-tree-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/behind-the-scenes\/christmas-tree-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Mishap&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids and I were really excited to put up the Christmas tree this year, so we got started on it on Thanksgiving. Our scrawny little Christmas tree has been a bit on the wobbly side for a couple of years now, but I was hoping I could make it last just one more season. Well&#8230;it made it through the night, but a leg on the plastic stand snapped and it literally came crashing down, ornaments and all, the next day.<\/p>\n<p>But I did get one last picture of it before it came to its dramatic end. We have a little tradition&#8230;I hand the ornaments to my kids one at a time and they hang them. Well, my son, Cody, got bored after hanging only a few, so the majority of the first box of ornaments were hung by my daughter Abbi, who is pretty tiny. I had to take a picture of the tree&#8230;I couldn&#8217;t help but laugh at the placement of the ornaments. There are a few ornaments in the middle and at the top from when Cody was involved, at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theornamentgirl.com\/images\/christmastree.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n(And don&#8217;t laugh at the awesomely gaudy tree skirt&#8230;I can&#8217;t help myself sometimes.)<\/p>\n<p>At least I had a good excuse to get a new tree. Here is our new, slightly taller, Christmas tree (after I did a little ornament re-arranging):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theornamentgirl.com\/images\/christmastree3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids and I were really excited to put up the Christmas tree this year, so we got started on it on Thanksgiving. Our scrawny little Christmas tree has been a bit on the wobbly side for a couple of years now, but I was hoping I could make it last just one more season.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}