{"id":96,"date":"2013-12-03T01:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleensmith.org\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-12-03T01:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:06:25","slug":"christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathleensmith.org\/wp\/2013\/12\/03\/christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks blog post is late today. Sorry about that, but better late then never.<\/p>\n<p>Ah,Christmas lights! I love Christmas lights! I very much enjoy decorating the outside of our house with Christmas lights. It isn&#8217;t always the easiest thing to do, but when I&#8217;m all done and we get to turn the lights on, I do get a certain feeling of accomplishment. 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