{"id":2174,"date":"2025-12-24T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:52:41","slug":"thought-for-the-day-december-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/thought-for-the-day-december-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day &#8211; December 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thought for the Day<\/span><br \/>\nWednesday, December 24, 2025<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As a kid, Christmas was my favorite time of year. As a parent, Christmas was my favorite time of year. As a grandfather, Christmas is my favorite time of year. As a kid, the focus was on what I would get as presents. As a parent, the focus was on what I would give as presents. As a grandparent, the focus is on the importance of specific traditions, like Christmas, working as a kind of balm for the toxic narcissism that is pervading our culture, from the President on down. As one\u2019s attention turns to the new year, one can hope for something to happen to trigger an enantiodromia from what we are suffering. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each and every.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought for the Day Wednesday, December 24, 2025 As a kid, Christmas was my favorite time of year. As a parent, Christmas was my favorite time of year. As a grandfather, Christmas is my favorite time of year. As a kid, the focus was on what I would get as presents. As a parent, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}