{"id":9446,"date":"2013-12-23T23:11:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2014-01-11T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:34:00","slug":"the-day-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-day-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Written 5 January 2014.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, our Day-Before-Christmas is really 23 December, because our Christmas is on Christmas Eve. \u00a0I guess somebody got the translation wrong? (10 images total)<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_9447\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9447\" alt=\"Adda and Halli stopped by for brunch.  Emma charmed.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adda and Halli stopped by for brunch. Emma charmed.<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9448\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0064.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9448\" alt=\"Halli with Emma.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0064.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0064.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0064-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halli with Emma.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9449\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9449\" alt=\"Time to say goodbye and Merry Christmas to Hildur and Arnar (not pictured).\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0069.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0069.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0069-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time to say goodbye and Merry Christmas to Hildur and Arnar (not pictured).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9450\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9450\" alt=\"After Emma and Bjarki had gone to bed, it was time to put up the Christmas tree and decorate it.  Anna insisted on colorful lights, and then we just sort of dumped all that we had on the poor tree.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0100.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0100.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0100-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Emma and Bjarki had gone to bed, it was time to put up the Christmas tree and decorate it. Anna insisted on colorful lights, and then we just sort of dumped all the stuff we have on the poor tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9451\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9451\" alt=\"Mostly done decorating.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0104-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mostly done decorating.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9452\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9452\" alt=\"Meanwhile, the adults were tidying up.  This meant recycling some lovely art, such as this cool house that Bjarki made at school.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0107.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0107.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0107-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile, the adults were tidying up. This meant recycling some lovely art, such as this cool house that Bjarki made at school.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9453\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9453\" alt=\"It even has stuff inside!\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0109.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0109.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0109-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It even has stuff inside!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9454\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9454\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9454\" alt=\"Bjarki's L, which is like a bed apparently, because...\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjarki&#8217;s L, which is like a bed apparently, because&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9455\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9455\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9455\" alt=\"... you can tuck the person in!\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0112.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0112.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0112-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; you can tuck the person in!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9456\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9456\" alt=\"A horse by Anna.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0125.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0125.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0125-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A horse by Anna.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Written 5 January 2014.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, our Day-Before-Christmas is really 23 December, because our Christmas is on Christmas Eve. \u00a0I guess somebody got the translation wrong? (10 images total)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9447\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9447\" alt=\"Adda and Halli stopped by for brunch.  Emma charmed.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0057-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adda and Halli stopped by for brunch. Emma charmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-day-before-christmas\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}