{"id":13125,"date":"2013-12-25T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2013-12-25T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:17:10","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nobleviola\/11549129685\/player\/ebc7343f29\" height=\"800\" width=\"600\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"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":[],"class_list":["post-13125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1649,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays\/","url_meta":{"origin":13125,"position":0},"title":"merry christmas and happy holidays","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll be posting after the new year - hope you and yours have a safe and happy holiday season!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7183,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/24\/merry-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":13125,"position":1},"title":"merry christmas!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blogxmassm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5669,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-happy-holidays\/","url_meta":{"origin":13125,"position":2},"title":"merry christmas &#038; happy holidays","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year when the blog goes on a brief hiatus for the holiday week.\u00a0 Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you and yours! 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