{"id":7575,"date":"2022-12-19T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"christmas-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7575","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS MEMORIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A USB drive arrived in the mail yesterday &#8211; a Christmas gift from my brother Spencer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I plugged it into my computer, images I hadn&#8217;t seen in over 40 years came to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a much too short list of frustratingly short family movies from my childhood &#8211; mostly Christmas footage from when I was under 5 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no sound to any of them but the films were hypnotic. I have watched them through several times already. And each viewing hits me hard in the feels.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight I took some screen shots.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s me at 2.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjiinEnFb8kIr1yIE_Ie1yydqOO3gjGs228naFB0_KAWauvPWfqxJaRLLjnvJF3VmyUOu64EqSk7ncxlgYdzg5XG6s_00Q-zoGJT9nlL9P1PXXp6Ur83Bkk3CDlgmESxpyyClxbrStDCnfRYXiKCP2VqgNiQnoNH6ILFKZgiCVXDBDI0O-vvihy2fMq\/w640-h420\/Me%20at%202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"309\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiYW2qkUnBORQFdZFO3Q4uxVQUmSKTjWpwhB8Z96W_RtqO7LPZduX3HQpKhJSvh108CXoguEyQbxleyO_2OX5u-AepzVAuI98aLC3kuxgQ0ITFr23y-tMR9Ow5tRKxFoxhNZ665-852x2fOwa9yW-WM-_lDGQwvbCD_p_iTIpki9NGVeA1oe_cWO7bX\/w640-h404\/Mom%20holding%20me.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"258\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuQrILXWihkXpnIobaJHOeisrftYVUGDVOZsW7JIufbHnw9qnwXDr4tfX40WEY0NZ9h2Yk3w8H-cHoeRg7zYwroXmQaQXX6Yz8v-xtxEVqI_1J5CiliqIuxjo1wGEqmLAnJCY-XpImoK8GFs6MJwollMnkqAUH6UJhcwLEnNBc7VrHU1FJOqRi9HtP\/w640-h422\/Mom%20Ryan%20and%20Snow%20Scene.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"305\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj7zw9iV5r0222zlsNhqDJVCU67XINoBbTrb_hnGwmj4vl5YChSzt58wvJNDckSl3yTiw-M5r9gb8dvZWN8KbcyC6zC5err5JcO_xM-MManSMlu75gzGmOWikyBGj8vvIX-TMQHsu9M7qBtmRFTt6mI_tWFTlMUKey2_LLqU6U1UiqM-BHqDyeg8Vv_\/w640-h428\/Mom%20with%20Necklace.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"313\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Stockings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Suesue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"314\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Dad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"272\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A USB drive arrived in the mail yesterday &#8211; a Christmas gift from my brother Spencer.\u00a0 When I plugged it into my computer, images I hadn&#8217;t seen in over 40 years came to life.\u00a0 It was a much too short list of frustratingly short family movies from my childhood &#8211; mostly Christmas footage from when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}