{"id":2566,"date":"2014-09-16T03:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2015-01-07T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:18:19","slug":"day-989-unadorned-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Day 988, Unadorned Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/988-_MG_9739.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/988-_MG_9739-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"988-_MG_9739\" width=\"980\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2567\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the square<br \/>\nNot a creature was stirring, there was nobody there.<br \/>\nAll the presents were laid &#8216;neath the tree with great care,<br \/>\nBut with no Christmas lights &#8217;twas completely bare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I never expected to see our city&#8217;s beautiful Christmas tree completely in the dark, let alone photograph it but here it is.<\/p>\n<p>I knew something was wrong as I approached Victoria Square. It was dark and all the traffic lights were out. My initial reaction was disappointment. After all I had made a special trip into the City just for this image. I even drove off and waited for a while to see if the power was restored. A second time I was disappointed and about to drive home when it suddenly dawned on me, what an opportunity to show something special.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is, our city&#8217;s unadorned Christmas Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 988, Unadorned Christmas&#8217;, 120s f\/13 ISO160 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the square Not a creature was stirring, there was nobody there. All the presents were laid &#8216;neath the tree with great care, But with no Christmas lights &#8217;twas completely bare. I never expected to see our city&#8217;s beautiful Christmas tree completely in the dark, let alone photograph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}