{"id":2035,"date":"2019-11-23T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/ho-ho-ho-away-we-go\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:09:48","slug":"ho-ho-ho-away-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/ho-ho-ho-away-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Ho Ho, Away We Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is winter, you see, in candy-land, frosting spread everywhere. Snowmen stand at cold attention whilst Miss Velcro is fit to be tied. The city goes crazy all night my friends, long as Mr. Claus goes a-wandering. Yes, Anything goes in candy-land a land where anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p>On Xmas eve Mrs. Claus goes wild. Lets it all come loose. In Candyland. The elves know, but do not tell. All is well, the saying goes, all is swell. \u202c<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2034\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/ho-ho-ho-away-we-go\/pexels-photo-260513\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"867,1300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pexels-photo-260513\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513-683x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2034\" width=\"867\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513.jpg 867w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pexels-photo-260513-534x800.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is winter, you see, in candy-land, frosting spread everywhere. Snowmen stand at cold attention whilst Miss Velcro is fit to be tied. The city goes crazy all night my friends, long as Mr. Claus goes a-wandering. Yes, Anything goes in candy-land a land where anything can happen. On Xmas eve Mrs. Claus goes wild. Lets it all come loose. In Candyland. The elves know, but do not tell. All is well, the saying goes, all is swell. \u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[188,127,121,147,167,123,64],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-fable","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-poetry","tag-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/100_0735-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-wP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":553,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/and-that-goes-double-for-mimes\/","url_meta":{"origin":2035,"position":0},"title":"And that goes double for mimes.","author":"David Raffin","date":"January 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The biggest problem with the term \"white privilege\" is that it was created by white people. 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