{"id":899,"date":"2006-11-28T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/28\/cuz-we-need-a-little-christmas-right-th"},"modified":"2006-11-28T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T17:51:43","slug":"cuz-we-need-a-little-christmas-right-this-very-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/28\/cuz-we-need-a-little-christmas-right-this-very-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cuz We Need a Little Christmas, Right This Very Minute&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the Boston Globe yesterday about how parking spaces in the city of Boston are now going for $250,000. Not garages&#8230;.but a single parking space. In fact, one spot located behind the Ritz-Carlton (soon to be Taj Boston), is not even a garage space&#8230;it&#8217;s outside!<\/p>\n<p>If it costs $250,000 for a single parking space, how the hell am I to afford an actual inhabitable space with basic amenities\u00a0such as\u00a0a roof, walls and running water?<\/p>\n<p>After reading about that, I needed to cheer myself up so I took some close-up photos of my Christmas Tree. Here they are:<\/p>\n<p>First, an overview of the entire tree (and Santa seated on the trunk next to the tree)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"373\" alt=\"tree 02 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2002%202006.jpg\" width=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a glass (Christopher Radko) floral heart and a Hello Kitty character<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"293\" alt=\"tree 03 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2003%202006.jpg\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Frosty and a 1970&#8217;s-inspired smiley face<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"298\" alt=\"tree 04 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2004%202006.jpg\" width=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, Paris<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"291\" alt=\"tree 05 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2005%202006.jpg\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the hell this is. Some lady with grapes for a body?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"375\" alt=\"tree 06 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2006%202006.jpg\" width=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my pornament (notice where the carrot is)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"324\" alt=\"tree 07 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2007%202006.jpg\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pink poodle in a dress is one of my latest aquisitions ($1 in Ptown!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"307\" alt=\"tree 08 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2008%202006.jpg\" width=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the Provincetown Monument<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"290\" alt=\"tree 09 2006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/11\/tree%2009%202006.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, I feel much better now. I&#8217;ve completely forgotten that I can&#8217;t even afford to\u00a0own a parking space (let alone\u00a0the actual car to put in a parking space).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the Boston Globe yesterday about how parking spaces in the city of Boston are now going for $250,000. Not garages&#8230;.but a single parking space. In fact, one spot located behind the Ritz-Carlton (soon to be Taj Boston), is not even a garage space&#8230;it&#8217;s outside! If it costs $250,000 for a [&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-899","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\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}