{"id":177786,"date":"2026-01-02T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177786"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:14:10","slug":"weekend-open-thread-580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177786","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177787 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Three-Kings-20260101-D.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holidays are not over yet! Christmas season, as we recognized it in the last century, is increasingly disappearing into the Christmas shopping season. The actual Christmas season runs from December 25 through the first Sunday after Three Kings Day (Epiphany). Every day of the Christmas season is considered a \u201choly day\u201d thus \u201cholidays.\u201d Today is the ninth day of Christmas. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are not over yet! Christmas season, as we recognized it in the last century, &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177786\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}