{"id":838,"date":"2009-12-19T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=838"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:09:19","slug":"christmas-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/12\/19\/christmas-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Santa Bets it All by Joe Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

This was the Christmas card for 1996. Tina and I got married that October and we honeymooned in Las Vegas which we thought would be kitschy fun, but was really depressing. We were happy to be married, but Vegas is a living Pieter Brueghel<\/a> painting. We paid an extra 50 bucks a head to change our plane reservations and get out a day early.<\/p>\n

This was our card for that year. It was done the old fashioned way and photo-copied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the Christmas card for 1996. Tina and I got married that October and we honeymooned in Las Vegas which we thought would be kitschy fun, but was really depressing. We were happy to be married, but Vegas is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[86,3664,5],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-christmas","tag-drawer-cards","tag-joe-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5704,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/24\/christmas-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":838,"position":0},"title":"It’s Christmas Eve…","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you been nice? 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