{"id":371,"date":"2012-12-21T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T02:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-12-21T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T02:35:35","slug":"happy-holidays-you-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/12\/21\/happy-holidays-you-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays, you lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not much to say at the moment, except &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; to anyone who may be reading. It&#8217;s been not even a year since this blog <a title=\"My very first &quot;Adventures in Wonderland&quot; post.\" href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/01\/05\/what-is-blog\/\">appeared<\/a> here at <em>Occam&#8217;s Typewriter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be heading out tomorrow to where my relatives live, to join the rest of the family who are already there. I&#8217;m allegedly cleaning the house and doing a few other associated chores, although it should be pretty obvious that what I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> doing is writing a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with a few photographs:<\/p>\n<p>1. Beautiful downtown Toronto &#8211; the always popular skating rink at Nathan Phillips Square, in front of Old City Hall. Not long after sunset on my way to the train home.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Skating Time! - Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto by Richard Wintle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardipus\/8272997129\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Skating Time! - Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8490\/8272997129_0438ce8b48.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. A festive holiday (OK, &#8220;Christmas&#8221;) tree. Slightly let down by a distinct lack of snow.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Christmas Tree, Downtown Toronto by Richard Wintle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardipus\/8274227052\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christmas Tree, Downtown Toronto\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8068\/8274227052_477ff6f08d.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. A gentleman talking on the phone, silhouetted in front of some pretty decorations in one of the big bank buildings of Toronto&#8217;s financial district.<a title=\"On the phone - Christmas 2012 by Richard Wintle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardipus\/8294932661\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"On the phone - Christmas 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8364\/8294932661_21de6d8f17.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. And last, some ornaments, as seen through an <a title=\"The Agfa Silette LK\" href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/01\/28\/a-new-angle-of-view-part-ii\/\">ancient camera<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Christmas Ornaments - Eaton Centre Toronto 2012 by Richard Wintle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardipus\/8295989610\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christmas Ornaments - Eaton Centre Toronto 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8360\/8295989610_02f5e1be98.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And finally, my best wishes to all of you for an enjoyable holiday season, and a healthy, happy, safe and enjoyable 2013. Me? I&#8217;ll be writing <a title=\"Genome Canada. My holiday treat.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genomecanada.ca\/\">another grant<\/a>. The Perils Of The Season, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best to anyone reading this blog, for the holiday season and New Year&#8217;s 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/12\/21\/happy-holidays-you-lot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[130,128,126,129,127],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-uncategorized","tag-130","tag-christmas","tag-happy-new-year","tag-holiday-season","tag-new-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}