{"id":9051,"date":"2021-12-28T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","slug":"not-all-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9051","title":{"rendered":"NOT ALL BAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To clarify after my post on Christmas day &#8211; I don&#8217;t hate EVERY aspect of Christmas. I am not a complete Scrooge. I simply dislike the pressure our culture puts on everyone to attain some perfect Hallmark holiday celebration. And obviously the extreme commercialization of the whole thing is also more than annoying.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it all begins the day after Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having said that, here are some pictures from our last 10 days or so of things I DID NOT hate:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh0YsPSgb7X_HyqImYUSlvBa9XmCrphW3_tOjeIwnHF_8mDr5NR2UGTD6EhfHbrae4hHuAf1MMaTrS2RY875ktdgPWAIOyrx2GO4Zox8hVDByEHv8MJUlf-0_5rbM8Zq85T9mqA4cNfqFe9SiJzCMD2voneAFrxeONxwvPvtp_sHDDTrPYoBE3Wk4Qv=w640-h360\" alt=\"\" width=\"4624\" height=\"2600\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiKtXE2mCGw3MzLchPp3B9Pxt-EzG_uFFMJBW8p1AT6x8EIrW5JyTyPlND0VY43iE8hkL5zk6D2q6-nwanHFncnZcNq9k2_PAL0unNzZBrpEYvZp4Yz-ulOXTqNPDSvIaCXUV6z8T8V72LlC_aEYCm_rX0clUyLLVilLuFXonBSIYCkpsIOIrR9E9l4=w360-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"2600\" height=\"4624\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiMdNqAgXgpnKvHaSfdV_X03BA9A7WrXYPIbsdffyNaOCEsFvR0ftytXOgvSAbaC3BmTSduoY-AA4X-DuU-LXSgAbjZbnZ5NSdeTArEmPj6Af4FgWAm1bdjtipNEhtHac_cC_NKnfp7yRaV2a8tpc625FR8juNTjCbHwWCWe9-mJtFY5wa9-coaQ1mU=w480-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1438\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh7MJcIHtwbiL-0LE8qHS1emhpnbFtdH1YdH14ATy5_wqAApjRgXnFOqSvY1mPecD0arxb8wL2xv5_AujoUlINeXg5_yewE0cVB1Fnlox66j12Sqt4qfEBPFErHGY9zf2deMzfi7z_SqdSMwdDBoWj-eFniSd1DYh7NkUAYbyzcnW_Mqolp0FGDODE7=w640-h480\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1079\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiylWWOOnxoJUGM3Gu-nipNpz_-sLNg6BuCjc29u3qZMn2rbrQtuwCLQ7ad97n0zo_3k4FjYxjZZN-ax1_yJhOZ-0fTVaqhCxPyY_nXYkODUvl-lOCF9qWqWWyd4OKgnKmQoi_q8HjR4jd3us_zMJdw6VYNklvU09S_AM490nxjqp6EBmQPXMpeEQgU=w640-h480\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1079\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhMvloamGWPCUi9zAw18cG9VPRXPCDy2CdcvXbRl30mZZ9ta2J9dLdXyib0-sKnCx3bVQq0uvhtlAN1zGYjxKyB8aGBgPREcnVDFG4ieHAXeqYXLqzAPzN4hUDWgZNn9b0UXRka-x_fJEx6T-Wrkf2s7aw20R0ZwqvaoHQKSURL_H2NjdEOg24lQfL6=w640-h480\" alt=\"\" width=\"1399\" height=\"1048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjfnrb8TwiK3u7E_yLQZ1FYcoj96rlAMXVzPfv-Ix4fuEm3xh-TRlP37yeNeRssgBTe_q3M3Z0gcXlvlI4kxwCOUoasIBiTDMdIHq9YNS3a38Rbr155DWY75X1kjkPe1XtpLW4UMo4x-ej4D1h-bUgPkd7dvrCyQpAIgyB7emrWruTvE2-8bpZP226G=w360-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1918\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To clarify after my post on Christmas day &#8211; I don&#8217;t hate EVERY aspect of Christmas. I am not a complete Scrooge. I simply dislike the pressure our culture puts on everyone to attain some perfect Hallmark holiday celebration. And obviously the extreme commercialization of the whole thing is also more than annoying.\u00a0 And it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","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\/9051","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=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}