{"id":250,"date":"2012-12-25T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=250"},"modified":"2012-12-25T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T13:37:45","slug":"merry-christmas-and-a-very-happy-emperors-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"MERRY CHRISTMAS! (and a very happy emperor&#8217;s birthday&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_251\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hebi-christmas.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251\" title=\"Merry Christmas from Hell\" src=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hebi-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hebi-christmas.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hebi-christmas-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merry Christmas from Hell!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, here in Japan our official (Dec. 25) Christmas Day is nearly over. I am spending the last hour or so in the company of a nice glass of scotch (thanks to my friend Don) with thoughts of peace, joy and more than a little gratitude for another year and another Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We actually celebrated Christmas yesterday, the 24th, as it was a national holiday, The Emperor&#8217;s birthday. The 25th is a work day here so we decided to take our celebration early, thanks to the emperor (blessed be his name, whatever it is&#8230;). Of course we did also celebrate some more today in-between work so it worked out quite well really. As I hope it is also working out for any and all who are reading this. May you have a Merry Christmas or otherwise Happy Holidays. May you enjoy at least one day of peace and joy (and hopefully much more than that) wherever you may be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Well, here in Japan our official (Dec. 25) Christmas Day is nearly over. I am spending the last hour or so in the company of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}