{"id":1142,"date":"2008-12-23T07:21:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2008-12-23T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T12:21:57","slug":"a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1142","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back there was an email at work announcing a winter holiday door decorating contest.  I took this as carte blanche to put up my Christmas cartoons, some of which I wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise put on public display.  My theme was &#8220;A not very Norman Rockwell Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was no contest the next year.<\/p>\n<p>The year following, the contest resumed, but the contest rules included the phrase &#8220;Must be in good taste.&#8221;  I refer to this as the &#8220;Tom clause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cartoons below the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/hohoho1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/hohoho1.jpg\" alt=\"Ho&#039; Ho&#039; Ho&#039;\" width=\"432\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/hohoho1.jpg 432w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/hohoho1-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/teamstersxmas2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/teamstersxmas2.jpg\" alt=\"Reindeer belong to the Teamsters\" width=\"432\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/teamstersxmas2.jpg 432w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/teamstersxmas2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmas2003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmas2003.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Goose\" width=\"432\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmas2003.jpg 432w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmas2003-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmascard1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmascard1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmascard1.jpg 432w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmascard1-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmas2004.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/12\/xmas2004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmas2004.jpg 572w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/xmas2004-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back there was an email at work announcing a winter holiday door decorating contest. I took this as carte blanche to put up my Christmas cartoons, some of which I wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise put on public display. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[138,144],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-humor","tag-cartoon","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}