{"id":120,"date":"2010-12-06T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycjones.ca\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-10-02T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:56:39","slug":"my-christmas-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"My Christmas Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people wish for traditional &#8220;gifts&#8221; under their tree. After a lifetime of those typical Christmas mornings, this year my list is a little more basic. It has been a difficult couple of years and I realize what are the important things in life. Here&#8217;s my list, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to meet and spend some time with my five grandchildren, only one of which I have ever met.<\/li>\n<li>to reconnect with my son and daughter, who I have not seen in more that fifteen years.<\/li>\n<li>to find a full-time job that I love and pays enough for me to survive.<\/li>\n<li>to return to my beloved Okanagan Valley in BC, the last place I was truly happy.<\/li>\n<li>to reconnect with the many friends I made in the Okanagan during the sixteen years I was there.<\/li>\n<li>to find someone special to love me and share my life.<\/li>\n<li>to find a way to repay those people who have helped me through difficult times.<\/li>\n<li>to find friends and not be so alone.<\/li>\n<li>to be able to do normal things, like dance at a bar, go for a drink or a meal out.<\/li>\n<li>to not struggle each and every day to eat, stay healthy and have faith in the future.<\/li>\n<li>to find a way to pay for my diabetic medications and avoid the serious consequences of going without them.<\/li>\n<li>to find happiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people wish for traditional &#8220;gifts&#8221; under their tree. After a lifetime of those typical Christmas mornings, this year my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/christmas-wish-list.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}