{"id":2355,"date":"2025-12-19T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:13:26","slug":"merry-christmas-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2025\/12\/19\/merry-christmas-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-image-frame\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Xmas_card_2025-1b.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>&#8220;Santa in space&#8221; series for 2025 (click to see full-size image)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My holiday card this year in the cosmic greetings, Santa-in-Space series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>when something grinchy comes this way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lean banking balances go to naught<br \/>where e&#8217;re his pitchcraft slop is taught,<br \/>and roiling boasts do sour in taste,<br \/>when mister shady tweets in haste<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a playbook stark intones from old,<br \/>writ by souls into darkness sold.<br \/>Midas mists and scares rule the day,<br \/>when actor bad faith comes this way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but Santa cuts &#8216;cross the chatter<br \/>to remind us of fact and matter,<br \/>&#8217;bout wishes &amp; manners with real grace,<br \/>and that hope yet breathes in this place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as Claus moves beyond space &amp; time,<br \/>he winks in wisdom, speaks in rhyme,<br \/>&#8220;over the land may goodwill go,<br \/>something better together grow!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/santa_gifts-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/santa_gifts-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/santa_gifts-809x1024.png 809w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/santa_gifts-768x972.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/santa_gifts.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My holiday card this year in the cosmic greetings, Santa-in-Space series. when something grinchy comes this way lean banking balances go to naughtwhere e&#8217;re his pitchcraft slop is taught,and roiling boasts do sour in taste,when mister shady tweets in haste a playbook stark intones from old,writ by souls into darkness sold.Midas mists and scares rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[168,157],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-photo","tag-holiday","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}