{"id":2819,"date":"2023-12-20T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:10:57","slug":"the-eccentric-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-eccentric-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eccentric Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2820\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.07.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>I\u00a0squeeze a lot of ornaments onto my tree. I\u2019ve even occasionally called it cluttered. But I think it\u2019s also a happy tree. Most of the ornaments have some personal meaning for me and\/or my family. Some of them are heirlooms, having been handed down from my husband\u2019s grandmother or my parents. Many are hand-made\u2014by myself, my late mother, relatives, and particularly grandchildren. Actually, there are a lot of grandchildren-made ornaments on my tree. They&#8217;re some of the most special ones.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of my special ones:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2828\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"wp-image-2828 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.10.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Made by one of my grandsons!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2829\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2829\" class=\"wp-image-2829 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.11.09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I made this one, probably 15 years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2827\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2827\" class=\"wp-image-2827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.09.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Made by my mother.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2826\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2826\" class=\"wp-image-2826 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.09.38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by one of my grandsons<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2823\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-image-2823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.08.44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I made this one. The crystal at the bottom is from a chandelier that hung in the dining room of our house when we bought it. It was a beautiful chandelier but had seen better days and was replaced.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2824\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-image-2824 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.08.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This one came from Lele, my husband&#8217;s grandmother.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2822\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-image-2822 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-20-10.08.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The jeweled dragon on my tree.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0squeeze a lot of ornaments onto my tree. I\u2019ve even occasionally called it cluttered. But I think it\u2019s also a happy tree. Most of the ornaments have some personal meaning for me and\/or my family. Some of them are heirlooms, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-eccentric-christmas-tree\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,337,1],"tags":[189,350],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas-tree","tag-ornaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}