{"id":1816,"date":"2013-12-21T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2013-12-12T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:22:09","slug":"12-days-of-christmas-memories-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Christmas Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Day 9: Christmas Music<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Music has always been a big part of my life.\u00a0 When I was younger the days leading up to Christmas were filled with concerts.\u00a0 I enjoyed learning new songs and the spirit of Christmas I felt with the music. I remember a couple of years in a row my friend and I would go caroling to a few people in our neighborhood. We were teenagers!\u00a0 What teenager does that of their own accord?!\u00a0 Well we did and it felt great.\u00a0 When I moved to Grants Pass a family in the ward did the 12 days of Christmas for us and on the last day asked us to go caroling with them.\u00a0 Each year after that we continued that tradition.\u00a0 With each year the number of participants grew. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to marry into a family with really great musical talent.\u00a0 A few years ago we had some of Corey&#8217;s family members celebrating Christmas with us.\u00a0 We stood around the piano and sang Christmas songs while his dad played.\u00a0 It was one of those magical moments when it felt like all was right with the world.\u00a0 Music can bring so much good into this sometimes ugly world.\u00a0 I hope you can enjoy a little music this season and feel that wonderful Christmas spirit.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1817\" alt=\"music_notes-1z5rh82\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82-300x300.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/music_notes-1z5rh82.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 9: Christmas Music Music has always been a big part of my life.\u00a0 When I was younger the days leading up to Christmas were filled with concerts.\u00a0 I enjoyed learning new songs and the spirit of Christmas I felt with the music. I remember a couple of years in a row my friend and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[3,41,44],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-hoilday","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}