{"id":1158,"date":"2010-07-27T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-07-27T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:07:10","slug":"every-day-should-be-a-holiday-by-kissa-starling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/every-day-should-be-a-holiday-by-kissa-starling\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Day Should Be A Holiday by Kissa Starling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see it every year. People gear up for Christmas and shop &#8217;til they drop. I&#8217;m more of a give all year kind of gal. If I see something that I believe a friend would like, I buy it and give it to them. The holiday spirit is something that I love to see throughout the year. There&#8217;s nothing better than seeing a person&#8217;s face light up because they have electricity or water or even gas to heat that water. Many don&#8217;t understand the difference between having what you want and having what you need. As the old song goes- &#8220;You get what you need.&#8221; (If you&#8217;re lucky that is)<\/p>\n<p>In my novella, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.renebooks.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=STARLING%2D01\">Angel&#8217;s Wish<\/a>, there is a lot of selfless spirit lingering around all of the characters. Angel gives out food and toys to everyone in the community. She sees the worth in helping others besides herself. In the midst of all of this she falls in love. It&#8217;s not listed as a Christmas read because it really isn&#8217;t. Yes, part of the story takes place during Christmas, an integral part in fact but the spirit of giving transcends the time of the year. This novella shows a true character transformation and if that type of GLBTQ read is for you I&#8217;d love any and all feedback!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to think that everyone gets the holiday spirit throughout the year so I&#8217;ve found a few places that would love to share:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneclickatatime.org\/homeless-charities.html\">Charities for Homeless<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawbridge.org\/\">Art Programs for Homeless Children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kissa Starling<\/p>\n<p>www.kissastarling.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see it every year. People gear up for Christmas and shop &#8217;til they drop. I&#8217;m more of a give all year kind of gal. If I see something that I believe a friend would like, I buy it and give it to them. The holiday spirit is something that I love to see throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-christmas-in-july"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-iG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}