{"id":1266,"date":"2011-12-22T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2012-04-14T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:06:43","slug":"christmas-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;\"><span>Christmas will be different this year. Some of the usual decorated buildings won&#8217;t be lit this holiday, four months after Hurricane Irene. The old Salvo Post Office sits in front of William and Edward Hooper&#8217;s house. They are among the elderly of the villages, Edward being the oldest living male at 89. For years they&#8217;ve decorated the little building, but not this year. The Hoopers were displaced from their flooded home, and will never live in the family homestead ever again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-office1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1416\" title=\"post office\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-office1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-office1.jpg 332w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/post-office1-265x400.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, fantasy; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, fantasy; font-size: medium;\">Salvo Post Office from 2008<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, fantasy; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;\"><span>Another place down the road is decorated to the hilt every Christmas. Janie Hooper has lived in that Salvo house most of her 90 plus years. It too was flooded and sits vacant awaiting it&#8217;s fate, still unknown to me at this time.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Janies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1268\" title=\"Janie's\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Janies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Janies.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Janies-400x262.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><span>Miss Janie&#8217;s House in 2003<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, fantasy; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><span>Despite this, we have a lot to be thankful for this holiday. Irene could have been worse than it was.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><span>Merry Christmas everyone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas will be different this year. Some of the usual decorated buildings won&#8217;t be lit this holiday, four months after Hurricane Irene. The old Salvo Post Office sits in front of William and Edward Hooper&#8217;s house. They are among the elderly of the villages, Edward being the oldest living male at 89. For years they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buildings","category-outer-banks","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}