{"id":88,"date":"2005-11-16T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/11\/16\/tis-the-season\/"},"modified":"2006-04-30T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T06:28:13","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/11\/16\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the Season."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a106\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that twelve days isn&#8217;t so long. A lot can happen in that time. Consider the following: on the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying five golden rings (each), four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. You know what happened in the lead time. I am hopeful that I can get a complete draft done, edit it, and turn in the polished version of my thesis before the twenty-eighth.<\/p>\n<p>It stopped raining. I almost wish it hadn&#8217;t. Perhaps this is safer for my orange sherbert freeze, on its way directly from the Brigham&#8217;s in Bellmont courtesy Susannah, J.D.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago I threw a pumpkin into the river. It had a hard time negotiating between up- and downstream. The current, you see, is not very strong where I live. That&#8217;s not to say I gave the cucurbitaceous* little guy any help. I have to believe he&#8217;s made his way out to the ocean by now. Either that, or the river rats got him. [shudder.]<\/p>\n<p>*Diana knows this word even when she&#8217;s so drunk she doesn&#8217;t know her own name. Here&#8217;s to Harvard-Yale; Diana, this one is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that twelve days isn&#8217;t so long. A lot can happen in that time. Consider the following: on the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/11\/16\/tis-the-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}