{"id":9709,"date":"2015-12-25T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9709"},"modified":"2015-12-27T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T21:26:49","slug":"net-positive-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9709","title":{"rendered":"Net Positive Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/positive-christmas-texts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9711\" src=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/positive-christmas-texts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"positive-christmas-texts\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We received more than we gave. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how:<\/p><p>We received $100 in gift cards and gift certificates, $8 in tips and two pounds of gourmet coffee.<\/p><p>We brought home a huge bag of leftover bakery gifted from work: at least $40-50 worth.<\/p><p>We gave out $70 in tips and spent $40 on gift cards\u00a0and\u00a0$70 at the bakery for family and friends.<\/p><p>We got a $20 store credit from Williams Sonoma and $25 in statement credits.<\/p><p>This morning, we had breakfast muffins from the bakery, a cheese omelet, coffee and mimosas with orange and lime juice and Prosecco. \u00a0Ron has been playing some gorgeous Classical CDs.<\/p><p>As Ron put it, we have no stockings, tree or decorations to take down and no tinsel and wrappings to clean up: just our outside lights, which we&#8217;ll leave up, probably until New Year&#8217;s.<\/p><p>I made beef stew yesterday and a salad this morning. \u00a0Worked on the rope wreath.<\/p><p>We went for a late afternoon walk at Sandy Neck beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received more than we gave. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how:We received $100 in gift cards and gift certificates, $8 in tips and two pounds of gourmet coffee.We brought home a huge bag of leftover bakery gifted from work: at least $40-50 worth.We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}