{"id":1349,"date":"2006-12-25T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1349"},"modified":"2011-09-27T00:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T04:43:45","slug":"a-very-mofo-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1349","title":{"rendered":"A Very MoFo Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#8217;s super-sunny December 2006 has not exactly blessed us with a &#8220;White Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Due to Toronto&#8217;s recent tropical heatwave, <lj user=\"pipes_mum\"> wasn&#8217;t feeling the festive groove. She didn&#8217;t want a &#8216;traditional&#8217; tree with, you know, a trunk and branches and needles and whatnot. Instead, she opted for&#8230; a GelTree! <\/p>\n<p>The GelTree is a cutting-edge piece of holiday celebration: modern latex technology at its very worst, this series of red &#038; green gelatine adhesives suggest a tree in the same way that tofurky suggests a plucked, roasted dead bird. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, due to this winter&#8217;s unseasonably warm climate, the magical GelTree has melted into an even more freakish parody of a Tannenbaum. <\/p>\n<p>Despite this, <lj user=\"mindriots\">, <lj user=\"pipes_mum\">, her insane siamese and myself, all enjoyed our ultra-casual\/ghetto Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#8217;s super-sunny December 2006 has not exactly blessed us with a &#8220;White Christmas.&#8221; Due to Toronto&#8217;s recent tropical heatwave, wasn&#8217;t feeling the festive groove. She didn&#8217;t want a &#8216;traditional&#8217; tree with, you know, a trunk and branches and needles and whatnot. Instead, she opted for&#8230; a GelTree! The GelTree is a cutting-edge piece of holiday <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1349\">[&hellip;]<\/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-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}