{"id":176,"date":"2008-12-30T21:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-12-30T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:30:42","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/2008\/12\/30\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Happy holidays&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/wp-uploads\/2008\/12\/img_8705_xmas.jpg\" title=\"{xmas} Merry Christmas from me\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/wp-uploads\/2008\/12\/img_8705_xmas.th440.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas card\" class\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the common wish these days.<br \/>\nYou can hear people saying it on the streets, in the shops, online&#8230; the same old sentence, but for sure the meaning it&#8217;s not the same for everybody.<br \/>\nIs it easy to make the people you love happy?<br \/>\nI like very much to make presents.<br \/>\nAlways choosing very carefully, concerning the recipient.<br \/>\nBut this Christmas for the first time I got one gift rejected (not a good feeling at all).<br \/>\nDuring the years I&#8217;ve received many stupid, not useful things &#8211; presents that I didn&#8217;t like or want.<br \/>\nBut never I refused to take them.<br \/>\nI think that accepting things is as important as to give things. Maybe even more important.<br \/>\nFor it is wonderful to give from yourself, but is more valuable to know how to accept from the others.<br \/>\nI am also still learning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, for many, many people these days are neither happy or holidays.<br \/>\nFor me, &#8220;holiday&#8221; and &#8220;feast&#8221; are words that mean to dance, to sing, to play games, to exchange gifts.<br \/>\nBut in my country the &#8220;tradition&#8221; seems to be to spend the holidays at home, around the table and in front of the TV.<br \/>\nAfter them everybody is groaning and moaning and is feeling bad from too much food and drink, and I am sure that only a few people will do something different.<br \/>\nBut there is one more thing &#8211; I believe, that the holiday spirit comes from the people, not from the date in the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>So, Internet, that&#8217;s my greeting: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Have unforgettable holidays &#8211; let them be the way you want to make them! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u041eh, and that&#8217;s what I did for my brother, wishing him own sweet home:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/wp-uploads\/2008\/12\/cookie-house.jpg\" title=\"{xmas} Surely not perfect, but made with love\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/wp-uploads\/2008\/12\/cookie-house-small.jpg\" alt=\"cookies\" class\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the common wish these days. You can hear people saying it on the streets, in the shops, online&#8230; the same old sentence, but for sure the meaning it&#8217;s not the same for everybody. Is it easy to make the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,1,11,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-friends","category-general","category-clay-fibs","category-in-the-mood","category-soul-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}