{"id":5691,"date":"2021-12-12T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2021-12-12T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:45:30","slug":"no-holiday-letter-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2021\/12\/12\/no-holiday-letter-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No Holiday Letter This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I sat down the other day to write up our annual holiday letter which we typically send with our holiday card – but after writing down everything that happened to us this year, I realized that there really wasn’t anything of significance that happened this year – even less so than last year. Fully half of the letter I wrote was just explaining the loss of Delilah<\/a> and how we got Matilda<\/a>, which just didn’t feel like the sort of thing you want to be reading about in a holiday letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, we really had very little happen to us this year (which is both good and bad), and we did very little of note – just a few small, local, long weekend trips, and our one week vacation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So after a bit of thought, we decided we’re just going to skip the holiday letter this year. Hopefully by next year we’ll have something to report, but for this year – well, we’ve all got enough to remember about this year; we don’t need any more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There will be no end-of-year holiday letter for 2021 from us… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[498,32,84,386],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-498","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1tN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5961,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/12\/10\/no-holiday-letter-again-this-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":5691,"position":0},"title":"No holiday letter (again) this year","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year again where we are normally putting together the holiday letter that we send out with cards - but as we were drafting the letter for 2022, we realized that there wasn't much to say - making the whole point of the letter (letting people know\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "personal"","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4784,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/12\/24\/christmas-letter-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":5691,"position":1},"title":"Christmas Letter 2015","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the letter that went out with our Christmas cards this year (usually just to family), but it's been such a year that I thought I'd share it here as well. 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