{"id":1193,"date":"2010-07-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-07-27T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:06:16","slug":"bah-humbug-and-all-that-by-amy-moler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/bah-humbug-and-all-that-by-amy-moler\/","title":{"rendered":"Bah Humbug and all that by Amy Moler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not much of a fan of the holidays. There&#8217;s too much to do, too much worrying, and family get togethers only ramp up the stress. I have 2.5 kids \ud83d\ude09 a hubby and a medium amount of extended family. Last year I baked somewhere on the order of 30 dozen cookies to give away to friends, performed the usual shopping chores and drove the obligatory 500+ miles. Everything got done, the kids seemed to have a good Christmas, and there were no major disasters. All that being said, I am always just amazingly relieved for it to be over and the semester to start again, and my life to resume its normal level of mania.<\/p>\n<p>I have a Christmas story coming out from Torquere Press on Saturday the 24th. &#8220;Police Navidad&#8221;- #6 in the Inches of Trust series.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Tristan Blake spends Christmas day at work. This is a conscious<br \/>\nchoice on his part, because it provides him with a magnificently convenient<br \/>\nexcuse to avoid his unsupportive family. It\u2019s an equally planned choice to<br \/>\nspend Christmas night with his lover Brian Townsend. Dinner with friends of<br \/>\nBrian\u2019s is followed by a heartfelt gift exchange at Tristan\u2019s brownstone,<br \/>\nbut when the morning brings a visit from Tristan\u2019s furious mother, can Brian<br \/>\nweather the storm?<\/p>\n<p>Pick up your copy today:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torquerebooks.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=2729\">http:\/\/www.torquerebooks.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=2729<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not much of a fan of the holidays. There&#8217;s too much to do, too much worrying, and family get togethers only ramp up the stress. I have 2.5 kids \ud83d\ude09 a hubby and a medium amount of extended family. Last year I baked somewhere on the order of 30 dozen cookies to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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":[179,171],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-amy-moler","tag-christmas-in-july"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-jf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}