{"id":1034,"date":"2005-09-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1034"},"modified":"2005-09-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T20:30:00","slug":"a-decision-has-been-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1034","title":{"rendered":"A Decision Has Been Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it’s a little early yet, people – I usually don’t start gushing about Christmas until at LEAST after Thanksgiving – but I needed to let everyone know my intention to make this Christmas the one where I bake. There will be a gingerbread house<\/a> of incredible proportions. <\/p>\n

In fact, there’s a very good likelihood that, in honour of the new residence building at my old college (which I went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for yesterday, and it was a jolly good show), I might build a scale model replica of Morrison Hall<\/a>. Or maybe University College! Or, possibly, I might just try to do the Soldier’s Tower, and use melted lollipops and Life Savers to make the stained glass windows depicting scenes of war and sacrifice. <\/p>\n

Also, I’m going to steal Martha Stewart’s intriguing but underdeveloped Sugar Cube House<\/a> idea, and evolve it into a much better Sugar Cube Igloo(!) with marzipan penguins<\/a> and gingerbread Eskimos scene. I’m also in negotiations to get my wintery candy extravaganza narrated by Morgan Freedman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know it’s a little early yet, people – I usually don’t start gushing about Christmas until at LEAST after Thanksgiving – but I needed to let everyone know my intention to make this Christmas the one where I bake. There will be a gingerbread house of incredible proportions. In fact, there’s a very good […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}