{"id":3162,"date":"2017-12-24T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2020-06-30T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:55:03","slug":"xmas-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2017\/12\/24\/xmas-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2017\/12\/24\/xmas-2017\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align: middle alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20171224-IMG_3202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><small>&#8216;Dylan &#8211; Christmas Eve 2017&#8217; &#8211; Arlington, VA<\/small><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, Christmas time is here and as usual my son has waited until the last minute to write his personal letter to Santa Claus. We&#8217;ve already taken him to Tyson Mall to see Santa in person, and therefore I&#8217;m pretty sure he knows he is on the &#8216;nice&#8217; list, so making out his gift list and Santa letter are just formalities to him. But Julie makes sure he follows procedure and finishes the letter and puts it out with the milk and cookies before he goes to bed on Christmas eve. 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