{"id":210,"date":"2005-11-27T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/11\/27\/my-interior-arbor-day\/"},"modified":"2005-11-27T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T04:56:11","slug":"my-interior-arbor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/11\/27\/my-interior-arbor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interior Arbor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3499'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I think it was a success. I had a few people over Saturday night to help decorate my Christmas tree. I spent a small chunk of Friday baking cookies and brownies, and spent a bit of time today cleaning and making ginger bread.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Around 7PM, as the guests arrived, the gingerbread came out of the oven and provided a lovely scent throughout my apartment. I also heated up some apple cider and gave everybody a glass with a cinnamon stick in it. Martha Stewart would be so proud.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Come to think of it, she wouldn&#8217;t be. I served the snacks and drinks in plastic cups and plates. Lacking a table in the living room, I placed the platters of cookies and brownies on the floor. Class act.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I did stumble upon a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels in the kitchen. I think my friend, Jack (no relation to the&nbsp;alcohol distributor) brought the bottle to a house warming party a few years back.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Still, despite my lack of hosting skills, I think the event was a success. Mike, Rich, Jason and Heath were in attendance and helped decorate the tree, devour the goodies, and watch Christmas Vacation on DVD. Here are the results:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/051126treewithflash.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"401\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/051126treewithoutflash.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/051126gang.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was a success. I had a few people over Saturday night to help decorate my Christmas tree. I spent a small chunk of Friday baking cookies and brownies, and spent a bit of time today cleaning and making ginger bread. Around 7PM, as the guests arrived, the gingerbread came out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}