{"id":1554,"date":"2008-12-17T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2008-12-17T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:19:00","slug":"christmas-break-is-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/17\/christmas-break-is-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"christmas break is approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and it couldn’t have come any sooner!\u00c2\u00a0 I am definitely feeling the drain of all the stuff that comes along with the holiday season: winter weather (especially taxing here in snow-stoopid Portland), shopping madness, one holiday program after the other (with the same tunes arranged endless ways), and the onslaught of the first waves of the cold and flu.<\/p>\n

But, as I’m typing this, I have no appointments today, the snow if falling peacefully outside, and I and my family are warm and safe and sound.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanksgiving is past, but I have a lot to be thankful for this year.<\/p>\n

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…and it couldn’t have come any sooner!\u00c2\u00a0 I am definitely feeling the drain of all the stuff that comes along with the holiday season: winter weather (especially taxing here in snow-stoopid Portland), shopping madness, one holiday program after the other (with the same tunes arranged endless ways), and the onslaught of the first waves of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[143,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1626,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/22\/winter-is-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":1554,"position":0},"title":"winter is here","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"photo: \u00c2\u00a9 charles noble Yes, the ice and snow continued all through Saturday night, and we might get a bit of relief from the precipitation on Monday, but who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 Hope your holiday travel plans all work out - we're waiting to see if driving to the Seattle area will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"3126264156_07dc9bd6ae_b","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/3126264156_07dc9bd6ae_b-400x599.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1610,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/20\/chris-botti-concert-tonight-come-on-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1554,"position":1},"title":"chris botti concert tonight – come on down","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"With the snow flying, there are likely to be a lot of empty seats and good tickets that have been turned in for re-sale, so if you want to hear trumpeter Chris Botti and an amazing all-star band that he's brought with him (and the Oregon Symphony, of course) it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"chris-botti2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chris-botti2-400x579.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":172,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/17\/snow-daze\/","url_meta":{"origin":1554,"position":2},"title":"snow daze","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"snow at the pool, originally uploaded by nobleviola. 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