{"id":139,"date":"2005-12-04T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/?p=139"},"modified":"2005-12-04T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T08:03:42","slug":"summertime-it-must-be-getting-close-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Summertime &#8230; it must be getting close to Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a fabulous weekend &#8230; nice and warm (27-30 degrees Celcius\/80-85 Fahrenheit), sunny and the pool is warm. It has taken us a while to get here, but it finally appears to be summer!  We spent a while in the pool yesterday as it was so nice and may go to the beach later today.  South Africa IS a nice place to live!<\/p>\n<p>The odd thing is, when you go in the stores you hear Christmas Charols, see inflated Father Christmas\u00b4s and notice Christmas decorations all over the place. This seems so wrong for the time of the year, especially if you see sleighs, christmas trees with socks hanging from them and pictures of snow.   I guess we will get used to it eventually!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"small\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Summertime%20...%20it%20must%20be%20getting%20close%20to%20Christmas%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fabulous weekend &#8230; nice and warm (27-30 degrees Celcius\/80-85 Fahrenheit), sunny and the pool is warm. It has taken us a while to get here, but it finally appears to be summer! We spent a while in the pool yesterday as it was so nice and may go to the beach later today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"small\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Summertime%20...%20it%20must%20be%20getting%20close%20to%20Christmas%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewanderers.net\/w\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}