{"id":28743,"date":"2024-11-18T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=28743"},"modified":"2024-11-18T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:13:11","slug":"hopscotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/hopscotch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopscotch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006706-1536x1157.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m currently in a time warp because I have been tackling Christmas a little earlier this year. In my head, it is Christmastime, but the grocery store reminds me there is a big Thanksgiving holiday ahead. I have a friend who does her Christmas shopping by October, sets up her tree in early November, and sails through December. I admit that I don&#8217;t like to skip the focus of Thanksgiving, but this year, surrounded by Christmas preparations, I am not living in the moment. Maybe playing hopscotch over Thanksgiving helps me forget the empty chairs around our table as I make sure there are simple gifts beneath every tree. Perhaps focusing on Christmas is one way to show my thanks for my greatest blessings: our Savior and our family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in a time warp because I have been tackling Christmas a little earlier this year. In my head, it is Christmastime, but the grocery store reminds me there is a big Thanksgiving holiday ahead. I have a friend who does her Christmas shopping by October, sets up her tree in early November, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/hopscotch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hopscotch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}