{"id":12768,"date":"2010-12-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:50:11","slug":"celebrate-the-holidays-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/12\/celebrate-the-holidays-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Holidays, Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/OHC-01-20-10_wine.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10360 alignleft\" title=\"Red wine \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/OHC-01-20-10_wine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/OHC-01-20-10_wine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/OHC-01-20-10_wine.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I came across this article by <a href=\"http:\/\/anutritionisteats.com\/holiday-health-enjoying-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nutritionist Eats<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakefoodfree.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lori<\/a> and it&#8217;s my favorite healthy holiday related article yet.\u00a0 It talks about taking time to actually celebrate the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>How many articles have we read this year that are full of the standard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat Your Veggies!<\/li>\n<li>Carve out time for exercise!<\/li>\n<li>Eat before going to a dinner party so you don&#8217;t overload!<\/li>\n<li>Watch the wine intake!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dude.<\/p>\n<p>You can only read so much of that before you want to scream, &#8220;BUT it <em>IS<\/em> the holidays! Good grief let&#8217;s have some fun already!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know I&#8217;m right.<\/p>\n<p>Listen I&#8217;m not saying you should be, &#8220;Eff it all, it&#8217;s the holidays!&#8221; And start having iced bacon cookies (my idea, if you use it at least give me credit) with your coffee every morning until January 3rd.\u00a0 But I am saying, take the time to actually enjoy the holidays.\u00a0 It is festive and it is about fun and family and joy.\u00a0 So be joyful!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have that iced bacon cookie if you want it.<\/li>\n<li>Drink champagne and get giggly.<\/li>\n<li>Stay up too late, drink too much wine, and have a long chat.<\/li>\n<li>Hold hands.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve got snow, have a snowball fight or try and build a fort.\u00a0 Everyone loves forts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do something fun!<\/p>\n<p>Emily has a fantastic list so please head over and read it.\u00a0 Here are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You should fill someones stocking.<\/li>\n<li>You should take a day off from the computer \u2013 can\u2019t we all use one day without it?<\/li>\n<li>You should be sure that you\u2019ve had one cocktail by 3pm (or earlier, I won\u2019t judge.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Exactly! We should all do these things!\u00a0 Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I need to tell Scott that my stocking needs filled.\u00a0 Being naughty should be on the list!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-27-09_us.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10038\" title=\"Scott and I \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-27-09_us-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-27-09_us-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-27-09_us.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Holidays from OHC! We hope that you have the best time and we will catch up with you in a few days!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article by Nutritionist Eats via Lori and it&#8217;s my favorite healthy holiday related article yet.\u00a0 It talks about taking time to actually celebrate the holidays. How many articles have we read this year that are full of the standard: Eat Your Veggies! Carve out time for exercise! Eat before going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[48],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3jW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}