{"id":655,"date":"2008-12-05T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-12-05T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:01:17","slug":"this-is-where-my-children-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"This is where my children get it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article on the front page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scnow.com\/scp\/news\/local\/article\/saturday_christmas_extravaganza_in_hartsville\/21078\/\">Messenger<\/a> this week telling the world about what Mel has been up to lately.  Being in charge of the Hartsville Christmas parade apparently isn&#8217;t enough for him, so this year he takes on erecting a GIGANTIC Christmas tree for the city of Hartsville.  All in Mel style, of course&#8230;last minute, absolutely no plans.  He, however, managed to rope in many excited &#8220;volunteer&#8221; elves.  The parade is on Saturday morning and the Christmas tree lighting is on Saturday night complete with a bright red postal box for Santa letters, sugar cookies and cider.  (Mel&#8217;s mom has already baked some 600 cookies or so with plans to make more on Saturday!)  It is all I can do to keep up with my children and my husband!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article on the front page of the Messenger this week telling the world about what Mel has been up to lately. Being in charge of the Hartsville Christmas parade apparently isn&#8217;t enough for him, so this year he takes on erecting a GIGANTIC Christmas tree for the city of Hartsville. All in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}