{"id":1266,"date":"2012-12-21T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:14:57","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well Christmas is almost here.  Hope everyone has finished there shopping and gotten it all done without purchasing a mountain of credit card debt.<\/p>\n<p>As we were thinking how to word a Christmas wish for everyone, the screen lit up with a Christmas wish from &#8220;Hank&#8221; a bear we worked with Vikki Greene on.<\/p>\n<p>The caption said &#8220;Merry Christmas from me and Hank&#8221;\n <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hankschristmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hanks Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hankschristmas-small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immediately following that, we got another ecard from Vikki with her baby dinosaur &#8220;Ravi&#8221; which said &#8220;Happy New Year from me and Ravi&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ravishappynewyear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ravis Happy New Year\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ravishappynewyear-small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the two pictures say it all with seasons wishes, a short reminder just so you don&#8217;t forget. There is a lot of confusion out there as to how to address this season.<\/p>\n<p>We want to help clarify the confusion. It is to us still &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; No offense to anyone else, but that is the name of the holiday and HE is the reason for the season.<\/p>\n<p>So, we truly wish each of you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Christmas is almost here. Hope everyone has finished there shopping and gotten it all done without purchasing a mountain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}