{"id":1679,"date":"2007-12-24T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2007-12-24T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:49:00","slug":"the-magic-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>No, I’m not trying to be politically correct <\/span>with the title of this post. It’s just that I do love the magic of holidays<\/span>… all holidays. Okay, maybe not Arbor Day<\/span>, but all of the rest of the biggies. Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, Halloween<\/span>… you get the idea.<\/p>\n

Holidays are magical<\/span>. Think about it — name ANY major holiday and right away you get a sense of time and place and a feeling of what the holiday means. Holidays have the power<\/span> to bring families together, to end feuds, stop wars [if only for a short period of time], and even get you the day off from work.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I think about holidays, I think about family<\/span>. Of course we get together for the major ones… Christmas, Thanksgiving… New Years Eve<\/span>. There’s always laughter and shared memories<\/span> [and usually a few new memories created]. When my sons were younger we’d have their cousins over for fireworks on the fourth of July<\/span> and New Years Eve<\/span>. They’ve all outgrown that now. Funny, but I haven’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

When my sons were much younger you didn’t have to look very hard to see the magic in their eyes<\/span> when they’d see Santa<\/span> around town leading up to the big night. Sometimes they’d say it was the real Santa<\/span> and other times they’d know it was just one of his helpers. They knew because of the “magic”<\/span> they felt in the presence of the true St. Nick<\/span>. <\/p>\n

I still feel that magic when I’m with my family. I hope that you feel it too as you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Festivus<\/span> or Tuesday<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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No, I’m not trying to be politically correct with the title of this post. It’s just that I do love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}