{"id":31532,"date":"2025-12-15T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:32:08","slug":"christmas-is-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31532","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am officially on vacation as of today.<\/p>\n<p>You know what that means, right?<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnQEo4bazIo?si=4SmmHOsU23eEkiFN&amp;start=65\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s just not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall from the Nakatomi Tower.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the tree is up (but the lights are not plugged in yet) and the inflatable Christmas Corgi is going in the front yard today.<\/p>\n<p>I still have to get the car inspected. Yes, Texas did away with safety inspections at the first of this year. But I&#8217;m in an area that requires emissions testing prior to renewing your registration. And the shop I used to use for inspections no longer has an inspection technician: they redirected me to a quickie inspection place located behind a drive-through liquor and daiquiri stand up the road a piece. And <strong>that<\/strong> place is only open during the week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am officially on vacation as of today. You know what that means, right? Yes, it&#8217;s just not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall from the Nakatomi Tower. For what it&#8217;s worth, the tree is up (but the lights are not plugged in yet) and the inflatable Christmas Corgi is going in the front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31533,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions\/31533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}