{"id":52,"date":"2007-12-06T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/st-mikulas-day\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T22:56:38","slug":"st-mikulas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/st-mikulas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mikul\u00e1s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Shoes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0081.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0081.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Jaquie and her new mouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0082.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0082.jpg\" alt=\"Jaquie and her new mouse\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>St. Mikul\u00e1s visited our house and &#8211; since we have been very good children &#8211; left our shoes full of presents!  We got DVDs and popcorn and hot chocolate and candy, and Jaquie got new toys that she adores.  Her favorite is a set of three catnip mice &#8211; Jim detached one little mouse from the cardboard and she went crazy playing with it, and a few minutes later was trying to get the other two mice out of his shoe, where he had set them aside!  We got a <a title=\"picture of her attacking the mouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0083.jpg\">picture of her attacking the mouse<\/a>, but when we tried to get a video of it, she stopped and walked away in a huff.<\/p>\n<p>We had our Mikul\u00e1s Feast <em>last<\/em> night because tonight we had choir rehearsal.  I made cider and soft ginger cookies to share with everyone, in honor of it being St. Mikul\u00e1s Day, and we got to tell everyone about the Hoffmans&#8217; traditions and background.  Everybody was pleased with the treats and very grateful, and I enjoyed doing it but&#8230;note to self: don&#8217;t try cooking big meals and treats for 60 people two days in a row.  I am exhausted, and my poor kitchen looks like a whirlwind waltzed through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mikul\u00e1s visited our house and &#8211; since we have been very good children &#8211; left our shoes full of presents! We got DVDs and popcorn and hot chocolate and candy, and Jaquie got new toys that she adores. Her favorite is a set of three catnip mice &#8211; Jim detached one little mouse from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[51,31,60,100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}