{"id":2287,"date":"2010-12-23T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:40:43","slug":"twas-the-night-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/twas-the-night-before\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Twas the Night Before&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas at the rue de Fleurus,<\/p>\n<p>Alice was in the kitchen preparing her mousse.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 sat writing away at my desk being witty<\/p>\n<p>Penning word after word of this holiday ditty.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d been shopping in Paris all day long with the horde(s)<\/p>\n<p>Basket One was in tow, he just never seemed bored.<\/p>\n<p>All the streets were aglow in the City of Light,<\/p>\n<p>Festive, painted by number, each section just right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HolidayCard100012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2295\" title=\"HolidayCard'10001\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HolidayCard100012-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, we\u2019re Jewish, <em>Oy vey<\/em>, but a <em>f\u00eate<\/em> is a <em>f\u00eate<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>We enjoy buying gifts for our friends and our pet!<\/p>\n<p>We have gifts for ourselves too, usually small I admit,<\/p>\n<p>I must buy them or write them, only Alice can knit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh,\u201d you may say, where is the Steinese<\/p>\n<p>In this rhyme you are jotting,?\u00a0 Here it is, if you please:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGift, a gift I give a table, chair. Be right see me, the sky.<\/p>\n<p>For now be he and I will be she. Three. Not now, sing, fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ok, there, now you have it, so back to this rhyme,<\/p>\n<p>All the stockings were hung by the stove in due time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLovey, taste this ,\u201c \u00a0said Alice, a big ladle in hand,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it right? Is it bitter or the best in the land?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPussy, oh Pussy, it\u2019s so smooth, so divine,<\/p>\n<p>Even St. Nick would love it and declare it sublime!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Joyeux No\u00ebl \u00a0all with pure joy and no malice<\/p>\n<p>And a splendid \u00a0\u201911 from your GertrudeandAlice!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosewithsnow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2290\" title=\"rosewithsnow\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rosewithsnow-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas at the rue de Fleurus, Alice was in the kitchen preparing her mousse. I\u00a0 sat writing away at my desk being witty Penning word after word of this holiday ditty. We\u2019d been shopping in Paris all day long with the horde(s) Basket One was in tow, he just never seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}