{"id":7526,"date":"2023-12-25T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2023-12-24T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T04:55:23","slug":"christmas-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/25\/christmas-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225-Angels-and-the-Madonna-y-Bambino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225-Angels-and-the-Madonna-y-Bambino.jpg 648w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225-Angels-and-the-Madonna-y-Bambino-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Verna and I wish each and everyone a joyous Christmas. We are celebrating quietly here at home with a planned feast in the afternoon of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chateaubriand_(dish)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chateaubriand<\/a>, Braised Brussels Sprouts and Loaded Mashed Fauxtatoes (low-carb cauliflower masquerading as &#8216;taters). <\/p>\n<p>The roast is from a whole beef tenderloin I recently butchered into several steaks and other beef goodies to be consumed later. We will be feasting on them for weeks to come.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color:red\">Image above: The Virgin with Angels\u201d by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, oil on canvas, completed around 1900. The original painting is in a museum in Paris, France. I overlaid the scripture on the image. you can see the original <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/virgin-angels.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna and I wish each and everyone a joyous Christmas. We are celebrating quietly here at home with a planned feast in the afternoon of Chateaubriand,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-holidays","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}