{"id":5911,"date":"2010-12-23T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2010-12-23T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:02:11","slug":"ugly-christmas-sweater-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101223-5911.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Christmas Sweater Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My workplace has been having a mini-spirit week in this week leading up to Christmas.  Today is Ugly Christmas Sweater Day.<\/p>\n<p>I <b>hate<\/b> ugly Christmas Sweater Days.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because I <b>love<\/b> ugly Christmas sweaters.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d wear them everyday if I could and still be a professional.  <\/p>\n<p>Wearing them on &#8220;Ugly Christmas Sweater day&#8221; makes me seem complicit in the &#8220;make fun of themed sweaters&#8221; trend.  Which I&#8217;m totally not into.<\/p>\n<p>But I like to wear my Christmas sweaters&#8211;so I&#8217;m wearing one today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101223-01.jpg\" alt=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater\" class=\"aligncenter\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But please, if you want to make fun of Christmas sweaters&#8211;do so <i>behind<\/i> my back.  I happen to like them.<\/p>\n<p><i>**Please forgive the remarkably poor quality of the picture above.  I didn&#8217;t have time to make sure I got a good one.**<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My workplace has been having a mini-spirit week in this week leading up to Christmas. Today is Ugly Christmas Sweater Day. I hate ugly Christmas Sweater Days. Why? Because I love ugly Christmas sweaters. I&#8217;d wear them everyday if I could and still be a professional. Wearing them on &#8220;Ugly Christmas Sweater day&#8221; makes me &#8230; <a title=\"Ugly Christmas Sweater Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101223-5911.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ugly Christmas Sweater Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[249,654,1062,1184],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}