{"id":3170,"date":"2007-11-23T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2007-11-23T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T00:44:07","slug":"christmas-lights-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/christmas-lights-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well two major tasks have been completed today.<br \/>\n<strong>Laurie<\/strong> finished painting the living room while I hung the Christmas lights outside.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/2057774987\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2136\/2057774987_aec26dd9dd.jpg?v=0\" width=400><\/A><br \/>\nThe dining room looks great. Laurie really did a great job.<br \/>\nPutting the lights up was a little bit of a different experience. I always remember rushing to want to put them up every year. I had fun climbing the tree in the front yard to wrap them in the best way possible. As I look back I think it looked pretty random and trashy but either no one noticed or didn&#8217;t care to tell me. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo far we&#8217;re not doing much with outdoor lights this year. Just some basic white C7 lights around the eves.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/2058561736\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2097\/2058561736_4adb0afcb4.jpg?v=0\" width=400><\/a><br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ve run into a problem with our &#8220;bell tower.&#8221; I&#8217;m hoping maybe you can help.<br \/>\nAs you can see in the picture above, as well as below, there&#8217;s a somewhat random string of lights that hang down on the sides of the &#8220;bell tower&#8221; above the front porch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/2058561840\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2372\/2058561840_9fea8e2a46.jpg?v=0\" width=400><\/a><br \/>\nI think it looks a little tacky but I can&#8217;t figure out what to do with them.<br \/>\nShould I hook them to the brick along side the tower somehow? Should I tape them down? Should I just unscrew the bulbs so it doesn&#8217;t look as bad at night?<br \/>\nAny and all suggestions will be taken. Just let me know. I think it looks tacky and would love some suggestions and\/or help.<br \/>\nThanks in advance.<br \/>\nNow its time to find some dinner and come back to set up the tree and interior decorations.<br \/>\nSadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangenoiseradio.com\">Orange Friday<\/a> will be coming to a close before too long. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well two major tasks have been completed today. Laurie finished painting the living room while I hung the Christmas lights outside. The dining room looks great. Laurie really did a great job. Putting the lights up was a little bit of a different experience. I always remember rushing to want to put them up every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/christmas-lights-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas lights and more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,19],"tags":[419,417,413,418],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mi-familia","category-misc","category-reflections","tag-bell-tower","tag-christmas-lights","tag-painting","tag-problem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-P8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}