{"id":663,"date":"2008-12-16T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-12-16T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:50:13","slug":"more-precious-than-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"More Precious Than Noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Holidailies 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Images\/Holi08.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"40\" \/>December 16, 2008<br \/>\nTuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Lynns Macaroni Angel Ornament\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Images\/MacaroniLynn.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn DeAngelis, age 4, 1989\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>I have among my Christmas things many beautiful and expensive items. But of all the things I have, the item pictured today is perhaps my most beloved. Every mother I know has one, or wishes she did. (My Jewish friends have an object of similar design and construction that uses the symbols of their tradition.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is Lynn, my little angel, in 1989.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*********<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hang a Shining Star \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 2007 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=237\" target=\"_blank\">A year ago<\/a>, I wrote about the adornments at the top of our Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Here Are Poinsettias\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=74\" target=\"_blank\">Two years ago<\/a>, I wrote about The Poinsettia Song and the folded stars I learned to make in sixth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, I did not post.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Interlude\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/History\/?p=152\" target=\"_blank\">Four years ago<\/a>, I wrote about the one redeeming quality in a holiday event I didn&#8217;t otherwise enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><em>To be included on the notify list, e-mail me:<br \/>\nmargaretdeangelis [at] gmail [dot] com (replace the brackets with @ and a period)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of StatCounter Code --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar sc_project=3916081;\nvar sc_invisible=1;\nvar sc_partition=47;\nvar sc_click_stat=1;\nvar sc_security=\"41f88bb5\";\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><\/noscript><br \/>\n<!-- End of StatCounter Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 2008 Tuesday I have among my Christmas things many beautiful and expensive items. But of all the things I have, the item pictured today is perhaps my most beloved. Every mother I know has one, or wishes she did. (My Jewish friends have an object of similar design and construction that uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=663\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidailies-2008"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}