{"id":274,"date":"2009-01-10T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-01-10T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:46:36","slug":"year-of-the-ox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/artifacts\/year-of-the-ox\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/cowbells.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese folk art cow bells\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMy Christmas decorations tend toward the eclectic. I&#8217;ve always collected old-fashioned toys and when I lived in Japan, I hunted down folk toys wherever I went. These three cows\/oxen are actually clay bells, literally cow bells but not what we think of when we use the term.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nThis year, for the first time, I put them in the nativity creche that my father carved for me. How appropriate, then, to discover that 2009 is the year of the ox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eclectic ornaments. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/artifacts\/year-of-the-ox\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}