{"id":1130,"date":"2012-12-25T17:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T01:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2012-12-26T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:56:04","slug":"the-best-christmas-presents-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/25\/the-best-christmas-presents-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Christmas Presents, Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas afternoon. \u00a0I&#8217;m still feeling the vibes from my visit with the family, young voices, lots of music and people who ALL get along.\u00a0I&#8217;m so happy to be back home where I can drive less than an hour and get all the hugs a mother and grammy could want.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1131\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/25\/the-best-christmas-presents-ever\/eric_susie_playingchess\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1131\" alt=\"Eric is teaching me during my very first game of chess. He let me beat him, bless his heart.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Eric_Susie_PlayingChess-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Eric_Susie_PlayingChess-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Eric_Susie_PlayingChess-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Eric_Susie_PlayingChess.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youngest grandson is teaching me during my very first game of chess. He let me beat him, bless his heart.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My kids are so generous. In addition to some lovely gifts, my son-in-law produced two movies of me and my work &#8211; \u00a0from video shot by my neighbor Mike. Oh, yes, another gift to me. Thank you both. Such generosity in my life always amazes me.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think of the movies: <strong><a title=\"Art by Susie Stockholm \" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-0fJ7_vC9c0\">Click to see\u00a0Art by Susie Stockholm<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Can I Afford Original Art, Really?\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cBIFqpY_QcI\" target=\"_blank\">click to see\u00a0Can I Afford Original Art, Really?<\/a><\/strong><a title=\"Can I Afford Original Art, Really?\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cBIFqpY_QcI\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>I&#8217;d love to hear from you, so please give me call or email <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful holiday season and a joyous new year.\u00a0Many blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Susie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas afternoon. \u00a0I&#8217;m still feeling the vibes from my visit with the family, young voices, lots of music and people who ALL get along.\u00a0I&#8217;m so happy to be back home where I can drive less than an hour and get all the hugs a mother and grammy could want. My kids are so generous. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-prints-collages","category-the-business-of-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}