{"id":290,"date":"2003-12-24T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-25T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=290"},"modified":"2003-12-24T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-25T07:50:00","slug":"christmas-eve-oddness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/christmas-eve-oddness\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Oddness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403b.jpg','','width=448,height=600')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403b_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"172\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403a.jpg','','width=600,height=450')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403a_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"305\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403c.jpg','','width=450,height=600')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403c.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"172\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d go out for a drive tonight to see if I could discover some Christmas Eve oddness. There just has to be something weird going on tonight. Only took me about 15 minutes. After my bizarre run in with Sci-entol-ogists at Leicester Square in London I just had to get a closer look at the Winter Wonderland thing on Hollywood Blvd. Is this an attempt to be portrayed as user friendly religion [<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.torymagoo.com\/holyday1.htm?FACTNet')\">LINK<\/a>]? That&#8217;s not the weird thing. It was 10pm and there was a full volunteer construction crew out there on scaffolds and no lights working away like it was a regular work day. I wonder if Sci-entol-ogy Santa is Clear or has failed miserably on the Elect-ropsycho-meter [<a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/122403d.gif',475,606)\">LINK<\/a>]. Anyway, L. Ron says Merry Christmas everybody!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d go out for a drive tonight to see if I could discover some Christmas Eve oddness. There just has to be something weird going on tonight. Only took me about 15 minutes. After my bizarre run in with Sci-entol-ogists at Leicester Square in London I just had to get a closer look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}